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What would you like to be added?

It would be great if KWOK could support Helm charts. I had a brief discussion with @wzshiming on Slack, and here's a summary.

The main issue arises from the conflict with the go template's {{ and }}. Since Helm charts also use these as default values, KWOK would need to support modifying the default {{ and }}. This change is straightforward but requires modification at every occurrence.

To enable coexistence between the two, there are two options:

Integrate kustomize with Helm, as detailed here: https://helm.sh/docs/topics/advanced/#post-rendering Integrate Helm with kustomize, as detailed here: https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/references/kustomize/kustomization/helmcharts Option 2 (integrating Helm into kustomize) appears to be the more feasible solution.

@dmitsh, what are your thoughts on this?

Why is this needed?

Helm charts are widely used, making it easier to configure, create, and manage virtual clusters.

cc @wzshiming @dmitsh Created an issue on helm support.

Could you elaborate about the conflict with the go template?

Regardless, we are using ArgoCD to automate deployments of components with Helm. The goal is to deploy all the components without user intervention or input.

Could you elaborate about the conflict with the go template?

I think what Shiming referenced to was a helm template needs additional {{ }} in a stage's statusTemplate.

 next:
   statusTemplate: |
     {{`

    `}}

@dmitsh @yuanchen8911

I've released the first helm chart to validate the CI process, and it seems to be working pretty well.

https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/kwok/kwok https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok/tree/main/charts/kwok