Tillerless Helm plugin

Helm plugin for using Tiller locally and in your CI/CD pipelines.

Note: For a better security Tiller plugin comes with preset storage as Secret.

^ NOTE: Removed in this fork, since it's unnecessary when not using K8S secrets

Installation

Install the latest version:

$ helm plugin install https://github.com/rimusz/helm-tiller

Usage

Usage:

$ helm tiller start [tiller_namespace]
$ helm tiller stop
$ helm tiller run [tiller_namespace] -- [command] [args]

Available commands:

start   Start Tiller
run     Start Tiller and run arbitrary command within the environment
stop    Stop Tiller

Start Tiller:

$ helm tiller start

The default working Tiller namespace is kube-system, you can set another one:

$ helm tiller start my_tiller_namespace

Tip: You can have many Tiller namespaces, e.g. one per team, just pass the name as an argument when you starting Tiller.

Examples use of tiller run, that starts/stops tiller before/after the specified command:

$ helm tiller run helm list
$ helm tiller run my-tiller-namespace -- helm list
$ helm tiller run my-tiller-namespace -- bash -c 'echo running helm; helm list'

Stop Tiller:

$ helm tiller stop

Handy bash aliases for use locally:

alias hh="helm tiller run helm"
alias hr="helm tiller run"
alias ht="helm tiller start"
alias hts="helm tiller stop"

Examples of alias use:

# helm tiller run helm list
$ hh ls

# helm tiller run my-tiller-namespace -- helm list
$ hr my-tiller-namespace -- helm list

# helm tiller run my-tiller-namespace -- bash -c 'echo running helm; helm list'
$ hr my-tiller-namespace -- bash -c 'echo running helm; helm list'

Tiller binaries

Build/retrieve Tiller binaries and publish them

To build MacOS and to retrieve Linux binaries and then publish them to GCS bucket run on your Mac:

$ TILLER_VERSION=2.10.0 GCS_BUCKET=my_bucket make build

Build patched Tiller binaries and publish them

Note: Tillerin pre v2.10 does not support kubeconfig files which use user authentication via auth-provider, so you need to use this approach for all pre v2.10 tiller releases.

To build patched MacOS and Linux tiller binaries and then publish them to GCS bucket run on your Mac:

$ TILLER_VERSION=2.9.1 GCS_BUCKET=my_bucket make build-patch

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