microsoft
Helm repository for the retina
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, setting up installations in a cluster involves several steps to obtain the manifests for the helm. This process includes acquiring various tools locally and executing multiple commands, leading to complexity and potential errors.
Describe the solution you'd like I envision a straightforward installation process for Retina. Simplifying the setup to just a few steps would greatly enhance user experience.
Describe alternatives you've considered One feasible alternative is to establish a dedicated repository for Retina manifests. By adding this repository to Helm, users could easily access and install Retina with minimal effort:
helm repo add retinarepository
helm install retina
Additional context Implementing this solution could significantly reduce the occurrence of issues that need to be investigated, streamlining the deployment process for Retina.
there are some options for how we could handle this:
- use GH pages to host a helm repo (may be challenging, because we use GH pages to host https://retina.sh)
- use something like artifacthub which natively supports helm charts
- publish helm charts as OCI artifacts to GHCR
I favor the last option and it would be straightforward to set up, but interested to see what others think about the UX there, or if there are other options I haven't listed
will be fixed in https://github.com/microsoft/retina/pull/127 by publishing the helm chart OCI artifact to GHCR