Publishing Charts

Part of the Helm course

Your chart works. You can run helm install myapp ./mychart and get a running application, which means the hard part is behind you. Now a colleague wants to deploy it, and your options are to email them a folder, tell them to clone a repository and hope they check out the right commit, or paste a link to a branch. All three have the same defect: there is no way to say "install version 0.2.

Publishing fixes that. You turn the directory into a single versioned file, put that file somewhere both of you can reach, and from then on a version number is a precise, unambiguous thing to ask for. ...