Terraform-provider-helm: how do i run "helm init" with this provider?

[babatundebusari]

Anyway to run something similar to helm init using this provider with terraform or no way to to this?

thanks

[mcanevet]

I think it should be possible to run the equivalent of helm init -c using the Helm library at every run because, unless I'm wrong, this process is idempotent.

[mkyc]

there is workaround

resource "null_resource" "helm_init" {
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "echo \"$(terraform output kube_config)\" > ./azurek8s"
  }
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "export KUBECONFIG=./azurek8s"
  }
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "helm init"
    environment {
      KUBECONFIG = "./azurek8s"
    }
  }
}

[dominik-lekse]

@mkyc Thanks for sharing the workaround snippet.

[Chrisjw42]

Is this still the recommended method to run helm init?

[CodeSwimBikeRun]

I'm still lost how to do this @mkyc was downvoted for a reason, its not clear what all that kube_config copying is doing.

[rporres]

helm init does a client and a server initialisation. Server initialisation means installing the tiller, which is covered. Client initialisation is not yet there, but it will be fixed with #185

[pdecat]

Support for helm initialization was released with v0.10.0 of the helm provider.

[rporres]

Closing this as both client and server initialisation are covered

[galindro]

@rporres when helm provider will execute the "helm init"? I'm asking this because I would like to just execute it without install any helm file. I was though that only the provider declaration was sufficient, but it seems not working. So, I've just added a dummy helm_repository data source to force the refresh. Doesn't works as well...

[rporres]

Initialization is done silent and turned on by default

• Client is initialized in https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-helm/blob/master/helm/provider.go#L260. You can turn off this behaviour using the init_helm_home option.
• Server is initialized in https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-helm/blob/master/helm/provider.go#L429. You can turn off this behaviour using the install_tiller option

Since helm_repository deals with local directories, you will get client initialized if you use that but you will need a release to force the provider to install tiller to communicate with server

[eskp]

@rporres could you tell us at what stage the initialization is done? I have an external data resource to query helm however helm doesn't seem to be initialized (.helm does not exist) when the script runs.