Helm Dependencies Update Helper (Script) - WIP!!!

This is a script to help you to update your helm dependencies in your helm charts. It will create a PR with the changes if you want to. But

Why I build this tool? We have a lot of helm charts and we want to update the dependencies in all of them. The resources from helm-charts will be deployed over argocd, so the helm chart will no be installed on the cluster itself. Because of that you cant use tools like renovate or dependabot.

You can use this tool in your CI/CD pipeline or locally. The whole description about the script can be found on TBD.

Requirements

You will need the following tools installed on your machine (depends on your target environment):

• yq
• dyff
• az cli
• azure-devops cli
• gh cli

Please feel to fork this repository. This allows you to customize the script for your needs. Moreover you test the script directly in your environment.

Dry-Run

The default for the config.env file looks like:

BRANCH='main'
DRY_RUN='true'
GITHUB='false'
AZURE_DEVOPS='false'
WITHOUT_PR='false'

This will only print the changes to the console. You can run the script with:

./check-helm-dep-updates.sh

You will get an output like:

####################### Begin #######################
Name: External DNS
Version in Chart.yaml: 6.20.4
Current Version: 6.21.0
There's a difference between the versions.
Differences:
    _        __  __
_| |_   _ / _|/ _|  between old_values.yaml
/ _' | | | | |_| |_       and new_values.yaml
| (_| | |_| |  _|  _|
\__,_|\__, |_| |_|   returned two differences
        |___/

(root level)
+ one map entry added:
## @param ingressClassFilters Filter sources managed by external-dns via IngressClass (optional)
##
ingressClassFilters: []

image.tag
± value change
    - 0.13.4-debian-11-r19
    + 0.13.5-debian-11-r55

####################### End #######################

GitHub

First you have to login against GitHub. You can do this with gh auth login or get more information here on the official documentation

Now edit the config.env file like:

BRANCH='main'
DRY_RUN='false'
GITHUB='true'
AZURE_DEVOPS='false'
WITHOUT_PR='false'

Commit and push the changes to your repository. After that you can run the script with:

WARNING: after you set GITHUB to true, the script will create a new branch and a PR with the changes. If you want to test it first, set DRY_RUN to true.

Execute the script with:

./check-helm-dep-updates.sh

Check the changes on GitHub and if you are happy with them, you can merge the PR.

Azure DevOps

First you have to create a PAT token. You can find more information here on the official documentation. After you created the PAT token, you need to set the following variable:

AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT=<your-pat-token>

Then edit the config.env file like:

BRANCH='main'
DRY_RUN='false'
GITHUB='false'
AZURE_DEVOPS='true'
WITHOUT_PR='false'

WARNING: after you set AZURE_DEVOPS to true, the script will create a new branch and a PR with the changes. If you want to test it first, set DRY_RUN to true.

Execute the script with:

./check-helm-dep-updates.sh

Check the changes on Azure DevOps and if you are happy with them, you can merge the PR.

Without PR - Support all Git Providers

This part allows you to update the helm dependencies without creating a PR. You can use this part in your CI/CD pipeline. It can be useful if you want to update the helm dependencies in your main branch over an manual pull request.

First edit the config.env file like:

BRANCH='main'
DRY_RUN='false'
GITHUB='false'
AZURE_DEVOPS='false'
WITHOUT_PR='true'

WARNING: after you set WITHOUT_PR to true, the script will create a new branch and push this branch. If you want to test it first, set DRY_RUN to true.

Execute the script with:

./check-helm-dep-updates.sh

Check the changes on your Git Provider and if you are happy with them, you can merge the PR.

The CI/CD Way

Azure DevOps Pipelines

This part is still WIP. I will update this part as soon as possible. You can already use the script in your CI/CD pipeline. I want to create a GitHub Action for this script.

GitHub Actions - TBD

This part is still WIP. I will update this part as soon as possible. You can already use the script in your CI/CD pipeline. I want to create a GitHub Action for this script.