GitOps the Hard Way, with Argo CD

Creating a Helm Package

helm package bundles a chart into a versioned .tgz archive. This is how charts get published to a Helm repository for distribution. Our Application sources the chart straight from the Git directory, so we do not need a package to deploy, but it is worth knowing the command and keeping the archives out of Git.

Build the package:

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

helm package reads name and version from Chart.yaml and names the archive -.tgz.

Example: With version: 0.1.0, the output is todo-0.1.0.tgz.

These archives are build artifacts, not source. They do not belong in the repository. Ignore them:

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