K9s: Helm status

[Funcan]

Hi

Would you consider add or accepting helm chart support? It would be useful to be able to list all of the charts running and be able to drill into them.

I took a quick look at implementing it, but it involves connecting to a service via a port forward, and I'm struggling to get neat code for that; pointers welcomed

[derailed]

Thanks @Funcan! I think that's a great idea. Are you thinking connecting to tiller and thus the port-forward or something else?

[Funcan]

Yes, I'm thinking you'd have to connect to tiller via a portforward - I don't see another way of doing it - forking an external helm client command maybe, but that's rather hideous.

[derailed]

@Funcan so I am totally up to snuff here, but I think helm 3 is going to get ride of tiller. I think they're going to leverage CRDs to handle the state. So perhaps, we will be able to leverage the same mechanisms that K9s has to figure out chart state??

[Funcan]

I admit I'm not following helm development at all - I just use it, and not even a particularly recent version. I'll go do some reading - if CRD based helm is coming soon, that would be useful for me for a whole number of reasons

[vasicvuk]

There is already Bitnami's CRD for Helm currently experimental

https://github.com/bitnami-labs/helm-crd

[laurawadden]

Helm 3 is finally out of beta! It would be really cool to see this feature :) I love k9s, but the only thing I'm missing is viewing the helm release perspective.

Thanks for all the hard work. I love this tool <3

[derailed]

@Funcan @vasicvuk @laurawadden Thank you all for your input! I'll take a look and see how K9s will support this.

[mingfang]

-1
Helm is just one tool out of many.
k9s should not be helm specific.

[RothAndrew]

-1 on your -1. That's like saying you're going to do something for the mac ecosystem but ignore brew. Helm is the de facto package manager for k8s. It's in the CNCF. I don't think anyone talking about this feature is meaning to leave out anyone who doesn't use helm. It will be a value-add only.

[derailed]

@Funcan @mingfang @laurawadden @RothAndrew @vasicvuk - Thank you all for you suggestions!
I have enable helm3 charts support which is very primitive at the moment. You certainly don't have to to use helm with k9s but if you are you will be able to manage your helm install with K9s.