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
- Manage deploy behavior (
pending_release_strategy,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 |
| Code style | snake_case | camelCase | camelCase |
| 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 |
| Helm diff | function call of bundled helm-diff | os.Exec |
os.Exec |
| Live-tracking kubernetes resources | Kubedog | No | No |
| Get application logs | Kubedog | No | No |
| Get k8s events | Kubedog | No | No |
| Labels | tags |
labels |
? |
| Manage kube-context via iac | No | Yes | Yes |
| Parallel releases | Yes | Yes | Releases with the same priority can be executed in parallel. |
| Parallel limitations | Smart DAG goroutine count by priority | concurrent helm processes | max number of concurrent helm releases to run |
| Releases dependencies | depends_on |
needs |
Kind of (priority) |
| Dependencies cross namespaces | via @ |
via / |
No |
| Manage pending strategy | Yes | No | No |
| Explain graph dependencies | Yes | No | No |
| Latest docker image size |  |
 |
 |
| Compatible with helm v2 | No | Yes | Yes |
| OCI | registries |
option in repositories |
only pull, not login |
| Sub-main config | No | Yes | ? |
| manage render values | values has render option |
by file extension | ? |
| Remote values | go-fsimple |
go-getter |
? |
| Planfile | Yes | No | No |
| Vault / AWS SSM | gomplate |
custom functions | ? |
🌊 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 ❤️