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🛠 CLI Reference

NAME:
   helmwave - is like docker-compose for helm

USAGE:
   helmwave [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   0.14.1

DESCRIPTION:
   This tool helps you compose your helm releases!
   0. $ helmwave yml
   1. $ helmwave build
   2. $ helmwave up

COMMANDS:
   build, plan                                        🏗 Build a plan
   diff, vs                                           🆚 Differences between plan1 and plan2
   up, install, apply, sync, deploy                   🚢 Apply your plan
   list, ls                                           👀 List of deployed releases
   rollback                                           ⏮  Rollback your plan
   status                                             👁️ Status of deployed releases
   down, uninstall, destroy, delete, del, rm, remove  🔪 Delete all
   validate, check, lint                              🛂 Validate your plan
   yml                                                📄 Render helmwave.yml.tpl -> helmwave.yml
   version, ver                                       Show shorts version
   completion                                         Generate completion script
   help, h                                            Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --log-format value         You can set: [ text | json | pad | emoji ] (default: "emoji") [$HELMWAVE_LOG_FORMAT]
   --log-level value          You can set: [ debug | info | warn  | fatal | panic | trace ] (default: "info") [$HELMWAVE_LOG_LEVEL, $HELMWAVE_LOG_LVL]
   --log-color                Force color (default: true) [$HELMWAVE_LOG_COLOR]
   --kubedog-log-width value  Set kubedog max log line width (default: 140) [$HELMWAVE_KUBEDOG_LOG_WIDTH]
   --help, -h                 show help (default: false)
   --version, -v              print the version (default: false)

step #0: yml

It allows render helmwave.yml.tpl to helmwave.yml

Options

--tpl value             Main tpl file (default: "helmwave.yml.tpl") [$HELMWAVE_TPL]
--file value, -f value  Main yml file (default: "helmwave.yml") [$HELMWAVE_YAML]

step #1: build

This command generates .helmwave/

--plandir value         Path to plandir (default: ".helmwave/") [$HELMWAVE_PLANDIR]
--tags value, -t value  It allows you choose releases for sync. Example: -t tag1 -t tag3,tag4 [$HELMWAVE_TAGS]
--match-all-tags        Match all provided tags (default: false) [$HELMWAVE_MATCH_ALL_TAGS]
--file value, -f value  Main yml file (default: "helmwave.yml") [$HELMWAVE_YAML]
--diff-wide value       Show line around change (default: 5) [$HELMWAVE_DIFF_WIDE]

step #2: Working with plan

up

Helmwave will install repositories and helm-releases from plan.

down

Helmwave will uninstall helm-releases from plan.

ls

Helmwave try getting list of helm-releases from plan.

status

Helmwave try getting status of helm-releases from plan.

rollback

Helmwave will rollback helm-releases from plan.

validate

Helmwave will validate plan.


Logs

Logs options. Helmwave use logrus as internal logger.

Log Format

Helmwave supports several log-format

features text json pad emoji (default)
Color 🌈
Human readable 🧐 🤖 🧐🧐
Performance 🚀 🐢 ✈️ 🐢
Module TextFormatter (in-built logrus formatter) JSONFormatter (in-built logrus formatter) TextFormatter (in-built logrus formatter) logrus-emoji-formatter special for helmwave

Log Level

_ info (default) warn debug fatal panic trace
general info
incompatible version
helm-debug
file content
helm manifests, bug report

info or debug is preferred.

How to use?

helmwave <cmd> --log-color=true --log-level=debug --log-format=pad

or

export HELMWAVE_LOG_FORMAT=pad
export HELMWAVE_LOG_LEVEL=debug
export HELMWAVE_LOG_COLOR=true
helmwave <cmd>

Get Version

Long version

$ helmwave --version  
helmwave version 0.14.1

$ helmwave -v
helmwave version 0.14.1

Short version

$ helmwave version
0.14.1

$ helmwave ver
0.14.1

Completion

Bash

Add this code to your ~/.bashrc

source <(helmwave completion bash)
echo "source <(helmwave completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc

completion-bash

ZSH

Add this code to your ~/.zshrc

source <(helmwave completion zsh)
echo "source <(helmwave completion zsh)" >> ~/.zshrc

completion-zsh