Quick Start Guide

Get up and running with Helmbay in minutes. This guide will walk you through creating and publishing your first Helm chart.

Initial Setup

Create your first Helm chart repository.

# Create a new repository named "my-charts"
helmbay repo create my-charts --description "My Helm Charts"

Add your Helmbay repository to Helm.

# Add your repository to Helm
helm repo add my-charts https://charts.helmbay.com/my-charts

# Verify the repository is added
helm repo list

Create a packaged version of your Helm chart.

# Navigate to your chart directory
cd mychart

# Package the chart
helm package .

# This creates mychart-0.1.0.tgz

Upload your packaged chart to Helmbay.

# Push the chart to your repository
helm push mychart-0.1.0.tgz oci://charts.helmbay.com/my-charts

Install your chart from the repository.

# Update your repositories
helm repo update

# Install the chart
helm install my-release my-charts/mychart

A minimal example chart structure.

mychart/
  ├── Chart.yaml
  ├── values.yaml
  ├── templates/
  │   ├── deployment.yaml
  │   └── service.yaml
  └── README.md

Example Chart.yaml configuration.

apiVersion: v2
name: mychart
description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes
version: 0.1.0
appVersion: "1.0.0"

Example values configuration.

replicaCount: 1
image:
  repository: nginx
  tag: "1.21.6"
service:
  type: ClusterIP
  port: 80

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