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helm Deploy

Description
Specify a Helm chart (either in your repository or remote from a registry) to deploy.
Refer to the Helm guide for usage instructions.
Below is the full schema reference for the action. For an introduction to configuring Garden, please look at our Configuration guide.
helm actions also export values that are available in template strings. See the Outputs section below for details.
Configuration Keys
type
The type of action, e.g. exec, container or kubernetes. Some are built into Garden but mostly these will be defined by your configured providers.
Type
Required
string
Yes
name
A valid name for the action. Must be unique across all actions of the same kind in your project.
Type
Required
string
Yes
description
A description of the action.
Type
Required
string
No
source
By default, the directory where the action is defined is used as the source for the build context.
You can override this by setting either source.path to another (POSIX-style) path relative to the action source directory, or source.repository to get the source from an external repository.
If using source.path, you must make sure the target path is in a git repository.
For source.repository behavior, please refer to the Remote Sources guide.
Type
Required
object
No
source.path
​source > path
A relative POSIX-style path to the source directory for this action. You must make sure this path exists and is in a git repository!
Type
Required
posixPath
No
source.repository
​source > repository
When set, Garden will import the action source from this repository, but use this action configuration (and not scan for configs in the separate repository).
Type
Required
object
No
source.repository.url
​source > repository > url
A remote repository URL. Currently only supports git servers. Must contain a hash suffix pointing to a specific branch or tag, with the format: #<branch|tag>
Type
Required
gitUrl | string
Yes
Example:
source:
  ...
  repository:
    ...
    url: "git+https://github.com/org/repo.git#v2.0"
dependencies[]
A list of other actions that this action depends on, and should be built, deployed or run (depending on the action type) before processing this action.
Each dependency should generally be expressed as a "<kind>.<name>" string, where is one of build, deploy, run or test, and is the name of the action to depend on.
You may also optionally specify a dependency as an object, e.g. { kind: "Build", name: "some-image" }.
Any empty values (i.e. null or empty strings) are ignored, so that you can conditionally add in a dependency via template expressions.
Type
Default
Required
array[actionReference]
[]
No
Example:
dependencies:
  - build.my-image
  - deploy.api
disabled
Set this to true to disable the action. You can use this with conditional template strings to disable actions based on, for example, the current environment or other variables (e.g. disabled: ${environment.name == "prod"}). This can be handy when you only need certain actions for specific environments, e.g. only for development.
For Build actions, this means the build is not performed unless it is declared as a dependency by another enabled action (in which case the Build is assumed to be necessary for the dependant action to be run or built).
For other action kinds, the action is skipped in all scenarios, and dependency declarations to it are ignored. Note however that template strings referencing outputs (i.e. runtime outputs) will fail to resolve when the action is disabled, so you need to make sure to provide alternate values for those if you're using them, using conditional expressions.
Type
Default
Required
boolean
false
No
include[]
Specify a list of POSIX-style paths or globs that should be regarded as source files for this action, and thus will affect the computed version of the action.
For actions other than Build actions, this is usually not necessary to specify, or is implicitly inferred. An exception would be e.g. an exec action without a build reference, where the relevant files cannot be inferred and you want to define which files should affect the version of the action, e.g. to make sure a Test action is run when certain files are modified.
Build actions have a different behavior, since they generally are based on some files in the source tree, so please reference the docs for more information on those.
Note that you can also exclude files using the exclude field or by placing .gardenignore files in your source tree, which use the same format as .gitignore files. See the Configuration Files guide for details.
Type
Required
array[posixPath]
No
Example:
include:
  - my-app.js
  - some-assets/**/*
exclude[]
Specify a list of POSIX-style paths or glob patterns that should be explicitly excluded from the action's version.
For actions other than Build actions, this is usually not necessary to specify, or is implicitly inferred. For Deploy, Run and Test actions, the exclusions specified here only applied on top of explicitly set include paths, or such paths inferred by providers. See the Configuration Files guide for details.
Unlike the scan.exclude field in the project config, the filters here have no effect on which files and directories are watched for changes when watching is enabled. Use the project scan.exclude field to affect those, if you have large directories that should not be watched for changes.
Type
Required
array[posixPath]
No
Example:
exclude:
  - tmp/**/*
  - '*.log'
variables
A map of variables scoped to this particular action. These are resolved before any other parts of the action configuration and take precedence over group-scoped variables (if applicable) and project-scoped variables, in that order. They may reference group-scoped and project-scoped variables, and generally can use any template strings normally allowed when resolving the action.
Type
Required
object
No
varfiles[]
Specify a list of paths (relative to the directory where the action is defined) to a file containing variables, that we apply on top of the action-level variables field, and take precedence over group-level variables (if applicable) and project-level variables, in that order.
If you specify multiple paths, they are merged in the order specified, i.e. the last one takes precedence over the previous ones.
The format of the files is determined by the configured file's extension:
.env - Standard "dotenv" format, as defined by dotenv.
.yaml/.yml - YAML. The file must consist of a YAML document, which must be a map (dictionary). Keys may contain any value type.
.json - JSON. Must contain a single JSON object (not an array).
NOTE: The default varfile format will change to YAML in Garden v0.13, since YAML allows for definition of nested objects and arrays.
To use different varfiles in different environments, you can template in the environment name to the varfile name, e.g. varfile: "my-action.\$\{environment.name\}.env (this assumes that the corresponding varfiles exist).
If a listed varfile cannot be found, it is ignored.
Type
Default
Required
array[posixPath]
[]
No
Example:
varfiles:
  "my-action.env"
build
Specify a Build action, and resolve this action from the context of that Build.
For example, you might create an exec Build which prepares some manifests, and then reference that in a kubernetes Deploy action, and the resulting manifests from the Build.
This would mean that instead of looking for manifest files relative to this action's location in your project structure, the output directory for the referenced exec Build would be the source.
Type
Required
string
No
kind
Type
Allowed Values
Required
string
"Deploy"
Yes
timeout
Timeout for the deploy to complete, in seconds.
Type
Default
Required
number
300
No
spec
Type
Required
object
No
spec.namespace
​spec > namespace
A valid Kubernetes namespace name. Must be a valid RFC1035/RFC1123 (DNS) label (may contain lowercase letters, numbers and dashes, must start with a letter, and cannot end with a dash) and must not be longer than 63 characters.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.portForwards[]
​spec > portForwards
Manually specify port forwards that Garden should set up when deploying in dev or watch mode. If specified, these override the auto-detection of forwardable ports, so you'll need to specify the full list of port forwards to create.
Type
Required
array[object]
No
spec.portForwards[].name
​spec > portForwards > name
An identifier to describe the port forward.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.portForwards[].resource
​spec > portForwards > resource
The full resource kind and name to forward to, e.g. Service/my-service or Deployment/my-deployment. Note that Garden will not validate this ahead of attempting to start the port forward, so you need to make sure this is correctly set. The types of resources supported will match that of the kubectl port-forward CLI command.
Type
Required
string
Yes
spec.portForwards[].targetPort
​spec > portForwards > targetPort
The port number on the remote resource to forward to.
Type
Required
number
Yes
spec.portForwards[].localPort
​spec > portForwards > localPort
The preferred local port to forward from. If none is set, a random port is chosen. If the specified port is not available, a warning is shown and a random port chosen instead.
Type
Required
number
No
spec.releaseName
​spec > releaseName
Optionally override the release name used when installing (defaults to the Deploy name).
Type
Required
string
No
spec.timeout
​spec > timeout
Time in seconds to wait for Helm to complete any individual Kubernetes operation (like Jobs for hooks).
Type
Default
Required
number
300
No
spec.values
​spec > values
Map of values to pass to Helm when rendering the templates. May include arrays and nested objects. When specified, these take precedence over the values in the values.yaml file (or the files specified in valueFiles).
Type
Default
Required
object
{}
No
spec.valueFiles[]
​spec > valueFiles
Specify value files to use when rendering the Helm chart. These will take precedence over the values.yaml file bundled in the Helm chart, and should be specified in ascending order of precedence. Meaning, the last file in this list will have the highest precedence.
If you also specify keys under the values field, those will effectively be added as another file at the end of this list, so they will take precedence over other files listed here.
Note that the paths here should be relative to the config root, and the files should be contained in this action config's directory.
Type
Default
Required
array[posixPath]
[]
No
spec.atomic
​spec > atomic
Whether to set the --atomic flag during installs and upgrades. Set to true if you'd like the changes applied to be reverted on failure.
Type
Default
Required
boolean
false
No
spec.chart
​spec > chart
Specify the Helm chart to use.
If the chart is defined in the same directory as the action, you can skip this, and the chart sources will be detected. If the chart is in the source tree but in a sub-directory, you should set chart.path to the directory path, relative to the action directory.
If the chart is remote, you can specify chart.name and chart.version\, and optionally chart.repo` (if the chart is not in the default "stable" repo).
You may also specify an absolute URL to a packaged chart via chart.url.
One of chart.name, chart.path or chart.url must be specified.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.chart.name
​spec > chart > name
A valid Helm chart name or URI (same as you'd input to helm install) Required if the action doesn't contain the Helm chart itself.
Type
Required
string
No
Example:
spec:
  ...
  chart:
    ...
    name: "ingress-nginx"
spec.chart.path
​spec > chart > path
The path, relative to the action path, to the chart sources (i.e. where the Chart.yaml file is, if any).
Type
Required
posixPath
No
spec.chart.repo
​spec > chart > repo
The repository URL to fetch the chart from. Defaults to the "stable" helm repo (https://charts.helm.sh/stable).
Type
Required
string
No
spec.chart.url
​spec > chart > url
An absolute URL to a packaged URL.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.chart.version
​spec > chart > version
The chart version to deploy.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.defaultTarget
​spec > defaultTarget
Specify a default resource in the deployment to use for syncs, local mode, and for the garden exec command.
Specify either kind and name, or a podSelector. The resource should be one of the resources deployed by this action (otherwise the target is not guaranteed to be deployed with adjustments required for syncing or local mode).
Set containerName to specify a container to connect to in the remote Pod. By default the first container in the Pod is used.
Note that if you specify podSelector here, it is not validated to be a selector matching one of the resources deployed by the action.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.defaultTarget.kind
​spec > defaultTarget > kind
The kind of Kubernetes resource to find.
Type
Allowed Values
Required
string
"Deployment", "DaemonSet", "StatefulSet"
Yes
spec.defaultTarget.name
​spec > defaultTarget > name
The name of the resource, of the specified kind. If specified, you must also specify kind.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.defaultTarget.podSelector
​spec > defaultTarget > podSelector
A map of string key/value labels to match on any Pods in the namespace. When specified, a random ready Pod with matching labels will be picked as a target, so make sure the labels will always match a specific Pod type.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.defaultTarget.containerName
​spec > defaultTarget > containerName
The name of a container in the target. Specify this if the target contains more than one container and the main container is not the first container in the spec.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.sync
​spec > sync
Configure path syncs for the resources in this Deploy.
If you have multiple syncs for the Deploy, you can use the defaults field to set common configuration for every individual sync.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.sync.defaults
​spec > sync > defaults
Defaults to set across every sync for this Deploy. If you use the exclude field here, it will be merged with any excludes set in individual syncs. These are applied on top of any defaults set in the provider configuration.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.sync.defaults.exclude[]
​spec > sync > defaults > exclude
Specify a list of POSIX-style paths or glob patterns that should be excluded from the sync.
Any exclusion patterns defined in individual sync specs will be applied in addition to these patterns.
.git directories and .garden directories are always ignored.
Type
Required
array[posixPath]
No
Example:
spec:
  ...
  sync:
    ...
    defaults:
      ...
      exclude:
        - dist/**/*
        - '*.log'
spec.sync.defaults.fileMode
​spec > sync > defaults > fileMode
The default permission bits, specified as an octal, to set on files at the sync target. Defaults to 0o644 (user can read/write, everyone else can read). See the Mutagen docs for more information.
Type
Default
Required
number
0o644
No
spec.sync.defaults.directoryMode
​spec > sync > defaults > directoryMode
The default permission bits, specified as an octal, to set on directories at the sync target. Defaults to 0o755 (user can read/write, everyone else can read). See the Mutagen docs for more information.
Type
Default
Required
number
0o755
No
spec.sync.defaults.owner
​spec > sync > defaults > owner
Set the default owner of files and directories at the target. Specify either an integer ID or a string name. See the Mutagen docs for more information.
Type
Required
number | string
No
spec.sync.defaults.group
​spec > sync > defaults > group
Set the default group on files and directories at the target. Specify either an integer ID or a string name. See the Mutagen docs for more information.
Type
Required
number | string
No
spec.sync.paths[]
​spec > sync > paths
A list of syncs to start once the Deploy is successfully started.
Type
Required
array[object]
No
spec.sync.paths[].target
​spec > sync > paths > target
The Kubernetes resource to sync to. If specified, this is used instead of spec.defaultTarget.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.sync.paths[].target.kind
​spec > sync > paths > target > kind
The kind of Kubernetes resource to find.
Type
Allowed Values
Required
string
"Deployment", "DaemonSet", "StatefulSet"
Yes
spec.sync.paths[].target.name
​spec > sync > paths > target > name
The name of the resource, of the specified kind. If specified, you must also specify kind.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.sync.paths[].target.podSelector
​spec > sync > paths > target > podSelector
A map of string key/value labels to match on any Pods in the namespace. When specified, a random ready Pod with matching labels will be picked as a target, so make sure the labels will always match a specific Pod type.
Type
Required
object
No
spec.sync.paths[].target.containerName
​spec > sync > paths > target > containerName
The name of a container in the target. Specify this if the target contains more than one container and the main container is not the first container in the spec.
Type
Required
string
No
spec.sync.paths[].sourcePath
​spec > sync > paths > sourcePath
Path to a local directory to be synchronized with the target. This should generally be a templated path to another action's source path (e.g. ${actions.build.my-container-image.sourcePath}), or a relative path. If a path is hard-coded, we recommend sticking with relative paths here, and using forward slashes (/) as a delimiter, as Windows-style paths with back slashes (\) and absolute paths will work on some platforms, but they are not portable and will not work for users on other platforms. Defaults to the Deploy action's config's directory if no value is provided.
Type
Default
Required
string
"."
No
Example:
spec:
  ...
  sync:
    ...
    paths:
      - sourcePath: "src"
spec.sync.paths[].containerPath
​spec > sync > paths > containerPath
POSIX-style absolute path to sync to inside the container. The root path (i.e. "/") is not allowed.
Type
Required
posixPath
Yes
Example:
spec:
  ...
  sync:
    ...
    paths:
      - containerPath: "/app/src"
spec.sync.paths[].exclude[]
​spec > sync > paths > exclude
Specify a list of POSIX-style paths or glob patterns that should be excluded from the sync.
.git directories and .garden directories are always ignored.
Type
Required
array[posixPath]
No
Example:
spec:
  ...
  sync:
    ...
    paths:
      - exclude:
          - dist/**/*
          - '*.log'
spec.sync.paths[].mode
​spec > sync > paths > mode
The sync mode to use for the given paths. See the Code Synchronization guide for details.
Type
Allowed Values
Default
Required
string
"one-way", "one-way-safe", "one-way-replica", "one-way-reverse", "one-way-replica-reverse", "two-way", "two-way-safe", "two-way-resolved"
"one-way-safe"
Yes
spec.sync.paths[].defaultFileMode
​spec > sync > paths > defaultFileMode
The default permission bits, specified as an octal, to set on files at the sync target. Defaults to 0o644 (user can read/write, everyone else can read). See the Mutagen docs for more information.
Type
Default
Required
number
0o644
No
spec.sync.paths[].defaultDirectoryMode
​spec > sync