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Published inJun 2020
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Andrew Block
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Andrew Block

Andrew Block is a core maintainer on the Helm project and a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat. He specializes in the use of continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies to streamline the delivery process and incorporate security at each stage. He works with organizations to adopt and implement these technologies and concepts within their organization. As an open source enthusiast, Andrew not only has authored several publications, but he is also a contributor to several open source communities and a lead within the sigstore project, which aims at simplifying how software is signed and verified.
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Austin Dewey

Austin Dewey is a DevOps engineer focused on delivering a streamlined developer experience on cloud and container technologies. Austin started his career with Red Hat's consulting organization, where he helped drive success at Fortune 500 companies by automating deployments on Red Hat's Kubernetes-based PaaS, OpenShift Container Platform. Currently, Austin works at fintech start-up Prime Trust, where he builds automation to scale financial infrastructure and supports developers on Kubernetes and AWS.
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Packaging a Helm chart

While Helm charts follow a common file structure, they should be packaged in order to be easily distributed. Charts are packaged in tgz archives. While this archives can be manually created by using the tar bash utility or an archive manager, Helm provides the helm package command to simplify this task. The syntax of the helm package command is shown here:

$ helm package [CHART_NAME] [...] [flags]

The helm package command is run against a local chart directory. If this command is successful, it will generate a tgz archive with the following file format:

$CHART_NAME-$CHART_VERSION.tgz

The archive can then be distributed by pushing to a chart repository, which is a task that is explored further in Chapter 5, Building Your First Helm Chart.

The helm package command includes every file under a chart directory. While this is often the preferred behavior, it may not always be desired if the directory contains files that are not essential to Helm. One...

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Andrew Block

Andrew Block is a core maintainer on the Helm project and a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat. He specializes in the use of continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies to streamline the delivery process and incorporate security at each stage. He works with organizations to adopt and implement these technologies and concepts within their organization. As an open source enthusiast, Andrew not only has authored several publications, but he is also a contributor to several open source communities and a lead within the sigstore project, which aims at simplifying how software is signed and verified.
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Austin Dewey

Austin Dewey is a DevOps engineer focused on delivering a streamlined developer experience on cloud and container technologies. Austin started his career with Red Hat's consulting organization, where he helped drive success at Fortune 500 companies by automating deployments on Red Hat's Kubernetes-based PaaS, OpenShift Container Platform. Currently, Austin works at fintech start-up Prime Trust, where he builds automation to scale financial infrastructure and supports developers on Kubernetes and AWS.
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