The previous post setup the cluster and created a Helm chart for all the services required in the kube-system namespace.

Installing the subsequent services like PiHole and Jellyfin will require separate namespaces. This post will cover using Helmfile and refactoring charts.

Install Helmfile Link to heading

On MacOS run brew update && brew install helmfile. Follow the instructions in the README for other operating systems.

Git Structure Link to heading

Helm allows for grouping of logical sets of services into umbrella charts, which is the structure of the original chart setup.

With Helmfile, this is no longer needed. The metallb, ingress-nginx and cert-manager dependencies can be defined as separate releases in helmfile.yaml which allows for updating each of them separately as new versions become available.

$ tree -a -I .git
.
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
└── helmfile.yaml

0 directories, 4 files

Helmfile Link to heading

helfile.yaml now looks like this.

repositories:
- name: stable
  url: https://charts.helm.sh/stable
- name: metallb
  url: https://metallb.github.io/metallb
- name: ingress-nginx
  url: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
- name: cert-manager
  url: https://charts.jetstack.io

releases:
- name: metallb
  namespace: kube-system
  chart: metallb/metallb
  version: 0.11.0
  values:
    - configInline:
        address-pools:
        - name: default
          protocol: layer2
          addresses:
          - 192.168.1.50/27

- name: ingress-nginx
  namespace: kube-system
  chart: ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx
  version: 4.0.13
  values:
    - defaultBackend:
        enabled: false

- name: cert-manager
  namespace: kube-system
  chart: cert-manager/cert-manager
  version: 1.7.0
  values:
    - installCRDs: true

Install the helm releases Link to heading 

helfile sync

Verify Link to heading 

kubectl get pods -n kube-system
kubectl get services -n kube-system

The helm releases will also be visible in helm.

$ helm ls -A
NAME         	NAMESPACE  	REVISION	UPDATED                             	STATUS  	CHART               	APP VERSION
cert-manager 	kube-system	1       	2022-02-02 13:52:42.737763 +0800 +08	deployed	cert-manager-v1.7.0 	v1.7.0
ingress-nginx	kube-system	1       	2022-02-02 13:52:43.271475 +0800 +08	deployed	ingress-nginx-4.0.13	1.1.0
metallb      	kube-system	1       	2022-02-02 13:52:43.870754 +0800 +08	deployed	metallb-0.11.0      	v0.11.0