Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases in one shot
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fix: support OCI chart digest syntax (@sha256:...) (#2398)
fix: support OCI chart digest syntax in chart URLs and version fields

Helm supports pinning OCI chart images by digest (@sha256:...), version
tag (:version), or both (:version@sha256:digest) since helm/helm#12690.
Helmfile failed to parse these formats, incorrectly constructing helm
commands and losing version/digest information embedded in chart URLs.

Root causes:
- resolveOciChart() used last ":" to find version tag, but sha256:abc
  contains ":", so digest URLs were split incorrectly
- getOCIQualifiedChartName() included :version and @digest in chartName
  with no parsing of either source
- appendChartVersionFlags() passed release.Version verbatim to --version
  flag, including any digest suffix
- ChartPull() discarded the tag from resolveOciChart but did not
  preserve digest in the URL

This commit adds parseOCIChartRef() and parseVersionDigest() utilities,
then updates the OCI chart handling pipeline so that:
- Digests are preserved in the chart URL passed to helm pull
- Version tags are extracted cleanly for the --version flag
- Both chart URL and version field are parsed for version/digest info

Fixes #2097

Signed-off-by: Aditya Menon <amenon@canarytechnologies.com>
2026-02-12 20:20:43 +08:00
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Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts

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About

Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts. It lets you...

  • Keep a directory of chart value files and maintain changes in version control.
  • Apply CI/CD to configuration changes.
  • Periodically sync to avoid skew in environments.

To avoid upgrades for each iteration of helm, the helmfile executable delegates to helm - as a result, the following must be installed

Highlights

Declarative: Write, version-control, apply the desired state file for visibility and reproducibility.

Modules: Modularize common patterns of your infrastructure, distribute it via Git, S3, etc. to be reused across the entire company (See #648)

Versatility: Manage your cluster consisting of charts, kustomizations, and directories of Kubernetes resources, turning everything to Helm releases (See #673)

Patch: JSON/Strategic-Merge Patch Kubernetes resources before helm-installing, without forking upstream charts (See #673)

Status

May 2025 Update

  • Helmfile v1.0 and v1.1 has been released. We recommend upgrading directly to v1.1 if you are still using v0.x.
  • If you haven't already upgraded, please go over this v1 proposal here to see a small list of breaking changes.

Installation

1: Binary Installation

download one of releases

2: Package Manager

  • Archlinux: install via pacman -S helmfile
  • openSUSE: install via zypper in helmfile assuming you are on Tumbleweed; if you are on Leap you must add the kubic repo for your distribution version once before that command, e.g. zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic/openSUSE_Leap_\$releasever kubic
  • Windows (using scoop): scoop install helmfile
  • macOS (using homebrew): brew install helmfile
  • Linux/macOS/Windows (using mise): mise use -g helmfile@latest

3: Container

For more details, see run as a container

Make sure to run helmfile init once after installation. Helmfile uses the helm-diff plugin.

Getting Started

Let's start with a simple helmfile and gradually improve it to fit your use-case!

Suppose the helmfile.yaml representing the desired state of your helm releases looks like:

repositories:
- name: prometheus-community
  url: https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts

releases:
- name: prom-norbac-ubuntu
  namespace: prometheus
  chart: prometheus-community/prometheus
  set:
  - name: rbac.create
    value: false

Sync your Kubernetes cluster state to the desired one by running:

helmfile apply

Congratulations! You now have your first Prometheus deployment running inside your cluster.

Iterate on the helmfile.yaml by referencing:

More complex examples

See: multi-env-helmfile

Docs

Please read complete documentation

Contributing

Welcome to contribute together to make helmfile better: contributing doc

Attribution

We use:

  • semtag for automated semver tagging. I greatly appreciate the author(pnikosis)'s effort on creating it and their kindness to share it!

Users

Helmfile has been used by many users in production:

For more users, please see: Users

License

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