provider-helm is a Crossplane Provider that enables deployment and management of Helm Releases on Kubernetes clusters typically provisioned by Crossplane:

• A Provider resource type that only points to a credentials Secret.
• A Release resource type that is to manage Helm Releases.
• A managed resource controller that reconciles Release objects and manages Helm releases.

If you would like to install provider-helm without modifications create the following ClusterPackageInstall in a Kubernetes cluster where Crossplane is installed:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: helm
---
apiVersion: packages.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
kind: ClusterPackageInstall
metadata:
  name: provider-helm
  namespace: helm
spec:
  package: "crossplane-contrib/provider-helm:latest"

See the design document.

Start a local development environment with Kind where crossplane is installed:

make local-dev

Run controller against the cluster:

make run

Since controller is running outside of the Kind cluster, you need to make api server accessible (on a separate terminal):

sudo kubectl proxy --port=80

1. Deploy RBAC for local cluster

   kubectl apply -f examples/provider-config/local-service-account.yaml
   

2. Deploy local-provider.yaml by replacing spec.credentialsSecretRef.name with the token secret name.

   EXP="s/<helm-provider-token-secret-name>/$(kubectl get sa helm-provider -n crossplane-system -o jsonpath="{.secrets[0].name}")/g"
   cat examples/provider-config/local-provider-config.yaml | sed -e "${EXP}" | kubectl apply -f -
   

3. Now you can create Release resources with provider reference, see sample release.yaml.

make local.down