Helm managing a collection of services

Question

I have a Kubernetes cluster that runs a number of independent, discrete services. I want to use helm to deploy them, and I have made a helm chart for every individual resour

Answer 1

We also have similar scenarios wherein we have independent applications that we either need to deploy together to address features that span across them or individually deployed to address bugs. We end up using helmfile (https://github.com/roboll/helmfile). Each application still maintain their own charts, using helmfile, we can deploy them altogether if need to.

Answer 2

Use helm subcharts

You'd need to have something like a meta-chart, myapps. Then you'd add a requirements.yaml file like so:

# myapp/requirements.yaml
dependencies:
  - name: Service1
    repository: http://localhost:10191
    version: 0.1.0
  - name: Service2
    repository: http://localhost:10191
    version: 0.1.0
  - name: Service3
    repository: http://localhost:10191
    version: 0.1.0