Helmyard automates the process of managing and publishing Helm charts by interpreting structured YAML configurations. Designed for Kubernetes administrators and developers, it simplifies the synchronization, organization, and deployment of Helm charts across multiple repositories.

• YAML-Driven Workflow: Define your Helm chart sources and destinations in a simple YAML file.
• Automated Chart Management: Automatically clones repositories, extracts Helm charts, and organizes them into a predefined structure.
• Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with CI/CD pipelines for streamlined chart publishing.

• Python 3.6 or later.
• GitPython: pip install gitpython
• PyYAML: pip install pyyaml
• Access to Git repositories listed in your configuration YAML.

1. Clone the Helmyard repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/helmyard.git

2. Install the required Python dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Create a repos.yaml file in the root of the helmyard directory. Structure it as follows:

   repos:
     - url: "https://github.com/example/repo1"
       paths:
         - "helm/chart1"
         - "helm/chart2"
     - url: "https://github.com/example/repo2"
       paths:
         - "helm/chart3"

   Replace the URLs and paths with the actual locations of your Helm charts.

This process is managed by GitHub Actions:

Additions to the repos.yaml will trigger an action to build and publish the helm charts to https://dickiesanders.github.io/helmyard

helmyard will clone the specified repositories, extract the Helm charts based on the paths provided, and organize them into the ./charts/ directory, ready for deployment or further action.

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed contribution guidelines.

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

• This project was inspired by the need for a streamlined approach to manage Helm charts across multiple Kubernetes deployments.
• Thanks to all contributors and users for their support and suggestions.

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