Enhancement: add support to package my already existing Helm Chart

[yaakov-berkovitch]

Description

There is no support for packaging and uploading existing Helm charts I created by myself.

It's an important feature because our charts are not so simple to generate. They are based on helm chart library we created, and so the charts are templatized.

As part of my maven project I created a folder where my helm charts were created manually.

I don't need to JKube to generate them, but I want that the packaging and uploading helm functionality will still be available.

This was discussed with @rohanKanojia in https://gitter.im/eclipse/jkube?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge. BTW, same feature exists for building Docker image, where I can provide my own Dockefile. So my expectation is that the same behavior will be also available for Helm charts.

[herzogf]

Is there any update / planning on this? Ideally I'd like to use JKube just to package and upload my existing helm chart sources to JFrog Artifactory. If this is not planned for JKube, does anyone a) know a workaround to force JKube to use my existing helm chart directory or b) is there any other maven plugin to just package and push helm charts?

Thanks!

[manusa]

Not implemented yet, but it might be worth considering.