helmplate - A Helm template generator

While many of you will be familiar with helm create <chart>, you might have realised that it is not yet possible to create individual resources pre-formatted to the Helm best practises.

helmplate is there to fix that.

Install

Download

$ wget https://github.com/tomjohnburton/helmplate/releases/download/<VERSION>/helmplate_<VERSION>_<OS>_<ARCH>.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf helmplate_<VERSION>_<OS>_<ARCH>.tar.gz
$ mv helmplate /usr/local/bin

Verify

$ helmplate
NAME:
   helmplate - Generate helm formatted resources ready for templating

USAGE:
   helmplate [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

COMMANDS:
   create   Create a specified resource formatted to your chart
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h  show help

Usage

Let's say we have create our own chart and now want to add a secret (a resource that does not come with helm create).

$ helmplate create secret --chart path/to/my/awesome-chart --name wow
  
  Successfully created secret at path/to/my/awesome-chart/templates/wow-secret.yaml

# path/to/my/awesome-chart/templates/wow-secret.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: {{ template "frontend-stake.fullname" . }}
  labels: {{ include "frontend-stake.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
type: Opaque
data:
  

Supported resources

• Deployment
• Service
• Ingress
• Secret
• Service account
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Contributing

Most important thing right now is to increase the number of supported resources.

Also, finding ways to customise the resource to have more pre-filled values would make things even easier.