base on Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD. <!-- markdownlint-configure-file { "MD013": { "code_blocks": false, "tables": false }, "MD033": false, "MD041": false } --> <div align="center" markdown="1"> # Helmfile [](https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/actions/workflows/ci.yaml?query=branch%3Amain) [](https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/pkgs/container/helmfile) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/helmfile/helmfile) [](https://slack.sweetops.com) [](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) [](https://gurubase.io/g/helmfile) Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts <br /> </div> English | [简体中文](./README-zh_CN.md) ## 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, `helm` 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](https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/pull/648)) **Versatility**: Manage your cluster consisting of charts, [kustomizations](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize), and directories of Kubernetes resources, turning everything to Helm releases (See [#673](https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/pull/673)) **Patch**: JSON/Strategic-Merge Patch Kubernetes resources before `helm-install`ing, without forking upstream charts (See [#673](https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/pull/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](docs/proposals/towards-1.0.md) to see a small list of breaking changes. ## Installation **1: Binary Installation** download one of [releases](https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/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](https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/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](https://scoop.sh/)): `scoop install helmfile` * macOS (using [homebrew](https://brew.sh/)): `brew install helmfile` **3: Container** For more details, see [run as a container](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#running-as-a-container) > Make sure to run `helmfile init` once after installation. Helmfile uses the [helm-diff](https://github.com/databus23/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: ```yaml 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: ```console helmfile apply ``` Congratulations! You now have your first Prometheus deployment running inside your cluster. Iterate on the `helmfile.yaml` by referencing: * [Configuration](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#configuration) * [CLI reference](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#cli-reference) * [Helmfile Best Practices Guide](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/writing-helmfile/) ## More complex examples See: [multi-env-helmfile](https://github.com/helmfile/multi-env-helmfile) ## Docs Please read [complete documentation](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/) ## Contributing Welcome to contribute together to make helmfile better: [contributing doc](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/) ## Attribution We use: * [semtag](https://github.com/pnikosis/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: * [gitlab.com](https://gitlab.com) * [reddit.com](https://reddit.com) * [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io) * ... For more users, please see: [Users](https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/) ## License [MIT](https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/blob/main/LICENSE) ## Star History [](https://star-history.com/#helmfile/helmfile&Date) ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"5139","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"