Publish Helm chart in a chart repository to simplify installation

[chgl]

Having to download the repository to install the provisioner via the helm chart is a bit more inconvenient than if it were available via a chart repository. A central repository for all Rancher charts could be hosted directly via GitHub Pages (see https://medium.com/@mattiaperi/create-a-public-helm-chart-repository-with-github-pages-49b180dbb417).

I see that there already is a GitHub repo (https://github.com/rancher/charts), but I can't find any reference to a corresponding Helm chart repo.

[appany-it]

+1

[yasker]

We're working on adding local path provisioner to a Helm repo.

[sergeyshaykhullin]

+1

[ribx]

https://github.com/rancher/local-path-provisioner/tree/master/deploy/chart

[softwareplumber]

+1

[ugoviti]

+1

[sergeyshaykhullin]

@yasker Hello, any updates?

[will-beta]

expecting updates

[sergeyshaykhullin]

That is a prerequisite to add helm repo support?

[rmoreas]

helm/chart-releaser-action can help to publish charts on GitHub Pages.

[sergeyshaykhullin]

Also you can publish chart in OCI format https://github.com/appany/helm-oci-chart-releaser

[sergeyshaykhullin]

I have found that @ebrianne published copy of this chart and it is available on:

• Artifacthub https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/ebrianne/local-path-provisioner
• GitHub https://github.com/ebrianne/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/local-path-provisioner
• GitHub Pages https://ebrianne.github.io/helm-charts

helm repo add ebrianne https://ebrianne.github.io/helm-charts
helm install my-local-path-provisioner ebrianne/local-path-provisioner --version 0.0.19 

And also @containeroo

• Artifacthub https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/containeroo/local-path-provisioner
• GitHub https://github.com/containeroo/helm-charts/tree/master/charts/local-path-provisioner
• GitHub Pages https://charts.containeroo.ch

helm repo add containeroo https://charts.containeroo.ch
helm install my-local-path-provisioner containeroo/local-path-provisioner --version 0.0.19

For me it is sutable as temporary workaround 🎉

[ebrianne]

@sergeyshaykhullin I did it because I saw that no chart was available for it. Pretty simple and working good for my needs.

[Forbzy]

Im glad that https://charts.containeroo.ch and https://ebrianne.github.io/helm-charts. Will these be kept up to date with new releases? Currently version 0.0.20 is out. Any word on when rancher will do there own one?

[ebrianne]

@Forbzy I ll try to keep it up to date. But it would be great if rancher would provide the chart out of the box.

[patsevanton]

any update ?

[PatrickHuetter]

Any update?

[Twinki14]

It's been a number of years since this thread was updated, it looks like the above helm repositories are outdated

Any chance we could finally see local-path-provisioner in a official helm repo?

[onedr0p]

I think one of the major issues in getting this done is that this is very easy to do if the Rancher folks were using GH Workflows. However they are using drone for their build process and not sure if there's anyone that wants to contribute that change outside Rancher/SUSE. There are no easy methods to do with drone (insert the glue here) meanwhile using the official Helm chart-releaser-action with GH workflows is dead simple.

My ask to the maintainers would be, can GH workflows replace Drone here, if so are PRs welcome?

For the mean time I have migrated to democratic-csi using their local-hostpath driver which has a published chart and good support from the developer. You can also deploy openebs as local-hostpath as well.

[winromulus]

Would also appreciate a helm repo. It can be hosted in this github repo as the source

[gecube]

Hi! I am using fluxcd and would appreciate very much if some oci or helm chart registry will appear for storing local-path-provisioner. I know about project https://github.com/rancher/charts and it is shame that local-path-provisioner is not available in such a way as it is very useful and stable component.