Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Creating a Helm Package

The standard way to share and distribute your Helm charts is to package them. A Helm package is a compressed archive that contains all the files needed to install a specific version of a chart and thereby simplifies the process of sharing and installing charts.

Let's create a package:

cd $HOME/todo/app/manifests/helm/todo && \
helm package .

The package name will be todo-0.1.0.tgz. In general, it will have the following format:

-.tgz

Add the .tgz files to the .gitignore file since we don't want to commit them to the repository:

cat <> $HOME/todo/app/.gitignore
*.tgz
EOF