reverse engineering the existing releases into helmfile

[abdennour]

I have a long list of installed charts. I don't want to define them in helmfile manually ( run helm get values then fill in helmfile ).

Instead, I want to run a helmfile command that reads from the installed charts and fill-in the helmfile.yaml accordingly.

Is there a similar command or should I open a pull-request ?

[mumoshu]

@abdennour There's no such command today but it sounds like a great idea! I'd happily review it if you could submit the pr 👍

Maybe it would look like helmfile import --tiller-namespace myns for importing all the releases installed in the myns tiller namespace?

You'd need the following things to be baked into the resulting helmfile.yaml:

• repositories
  • name name of the repository. can be anything as long as it matches the $repo part of your chart under releases
  • url the url of the repo. see helm repo list
• releases:
  • name: release name
  • chart: chart name with $repo/$name format, like stable/mysql
  • values array of relative paths to values.yaml files. maybe you can just place $release.values.yaml where it is generated by helm get values $release > $release.values.yaml
  • tillerNamespace e.g. myns for the example command above.

[abdennour]

What about Helm 3 ? there is no tiller