This plugin adds support for local repositories to helm with the file:// instead of http:// or https://.
Example:
$ helm plugin add https://github.com/zoobab/helm_file_repo
Installed plugin: file
# Alternatively, you could also add it locally with:
# $ git clone https://github.com/zoobab/helm_file_repo && helm plugin add ./helm_file_repo
$ helm create chartexample
Creating chartexample
$ cd chartexample
$ helm package .
Successfully packaged chart and saved it to: /tmp/workdir/chartexample/chartexample-0.1.0.tgz
$ cd ..
$ mkdir helm_cache
$ cp -v ./chartexample/*.tgz ./helm_cache/
‘./chartexample/chartexample-0.1.0.tgz’ -> ‘./helm_cache/chartexample-0.1.0.tgz’
$ cd helm_cache
$ helm repo index .
$ helm repo add cache file://$PWD/
"cache" has been added to your repositories
$ helm search repo chartexample
NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
cache/chartexample 0.1.0 1.16.0 A Helm chart for Kubernetes
$ helm repo list
NAME URL
cache file:///home/zoobab/soft/helm_cache/
Not that the list of helm repositories starts with a file:///:
$ helm repo list
NAME URL
cache file:///home/zoobab/soft/helm_cache/
The index.yaml should look like this, look at the urls field that does not contain http:
apiVersion: v1
entries:
chartexample:
- apiVersion: v2
appVersion: 1.16.0
created: "2022-10-18T12:20:54.858719098+02:00"
description: A Helm chart for Kubernetes
digest: c262f7269459773bac53470649470b78b72a72bac6571b0931c8456c6bfc5ee1
name: chartexample
type: application
urls:
- chartexample-0.1.0.tgz
version: 0.1.0
generated: "2022-10-18T12:20:54.857888206+02:00"
Tested with helm version 3.10:
$ helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.10.1", GitCommit:"9f88ccb6aee40b9a0535fcc7efea6055e1ef72c9", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.18.7"}