Helm Dashboard

A simplified way of working with Helm.

Local Testing

Prerequisites: helm and kubectl binaries installed and operational.

Until we make our repo public, we have to use a custom way to install the plugin.

There is a need to build binary for plugin to function, run:

go build -o bin/dashboard .

To install, checkout the source code and run from source dir:

helm plugin install .

Local install of plugin just creates a symlink, so making the changes and rebuilding the binary would not require to reinstall a plugin.

To use the plugin, run in your terminal:

helm dashboard

Then, use the web UI.

Uninstalling

To uninstall, run:

helm plugin uninstall dashboard

Support Channels

We have two main channels for supporting the Helm Dashboard users: Slack community for general conversations and GitHub issues for real bugs.

Roadmap

First Public Version

• Helm Plugin Packaging
• CLI launcher
• Web Server with REST API
• Listing the installed applications
• View k8s resources created by the application (describe, status)
• Viewing revision history for application
• View manifest diffs between revisions, also changelogs etc
• Analytics reporting (telemetry)
• Rollback to a revision
• Check for repo updates & upgrade flow
• Uninstalling the app completely
• Switch clusters
• Show manifest/describe upon clicking on resource

Further Ideas

• Have cleaner idea on the web API structure
• Recognise & show ArgoCD-originating charts/objects, those helm ls does not show
• Recognise the revisions that are rollbacks by their description and mark in timeline

Topic "Validating Manifests"

• Validate manifests before deploy and get better errors
• See if we can build in Chechov or Validkube validation

Iteration "Value Setting"

• Setting parameter values and installing
• Reconfiguring the application

Iteration "Repo View"

• Browsing repositories
• Adding new repository
• Installing new app from repo