Intro
🌊 Helmwave is helm3-native tool for deploy your Helm Charts via GitOps. HelmWave is like docker-compose for helm.
🚀 Features
We focus on speed execution, tiny size, pretty debugging.
With helmwave you will become a superhero:
- Deploy multiple environments by one step
- Separate values for environments
- Common values for apps
- Keep a directory of chart value files
- Maintain changes in version control
- Template values
- Step by Step deployment (depends_on, allow_failure)
- Live tracking kubernetes resources with kubedog
- Fetch data from external datasource like vault, aws ssm
- ... and much more!
Comparison to alternatives
| 🌊 HelmWave | Helmfile | Helmsman | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syntax | YAML + sprig/gomplate | YAML + sprig | TOML/YAML |
| Requirements | No | kubectl, helmhelm-diff (optional: helm-secrets, helm-s3, helm-git) |
kubectl, helmhelm-diff |
| Helm execution | function call of bundled helm | os.Exec |
os.Exec |
| Remote values | Partially | Yes | No |
| Parallel releases | Yes | Yes | No |
| Releases dependencies | Yes (depends_on) | Yes (needs) | Kind of (priority) |
| Latest docker image size |  |
 |
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| Linux amd64 binary size |  |
 + requirements |
 + requirements |
| Live-tracking kubernetes resources | Kubedog | No | No |
| Compatible with helm v2 | no | Yes | Yes |
| Graph dependencies | yes | No | No |
🌊 Helmwave is inspired by docker-compose, terraform and helmfile,
Here I would like to express our gratitude to all contributors for their commits, authors of third-party dependencies and all open source community ❤️