Istio Helm charts

This turns the Istio Helm charts bundled in the Istio repository into hosted Helm charts.

Installation

To start using the Helm charts from this repository run the following command

helm repo add estafette https://helm.estafette.io

To update and view all available charts in the repository run

helm repo update estafette
helm search repo estafette

From here on you can install or upgrade helm charts as follows

kubectl create namespace istio-system
helm upgrade --install istio-base estafette/istio-base --namespace istio-system --wait
helm upgrade --install istio-discovery estafette/istio-discovery --namespace istio-system --wait
helm upgrade --install istio-ingress estafette/istio-ingress --namespace istio-system --wait
helm upgrade --install istio-egress estafette/istio-egress --namespace istio-system --wait

More details on installing and upgrading Istio using Helm can be found at:

CRDs

With Helm 3 CRDs present in a directory crds are automatically installed. See https://helm.sh/docs/topics/chart_best_practices/custom_resource_definitions/.

When managing helm charts with helmfile validation of istio-discovery can fail due to the CRDs in istio-base not being installed yet. To avoid this add disableValidation: true to the releases depending on those CRDs. The helmfile manifest would look something like this:

helmDefaults:
  wait: true
  atomic: true
  timeout: 120

repositories:
- name: estafette
  url: https://helm.estafette.io

releases:
- name: istio-base
  namespace: istio-system
  chart: estafette/istio-base
  version: 1.11.1
- name: istio-discovery
  namespace: istio-system
  chart: estafette/istio-discovery
  version: 1.11.1
  disableValidation: true
  needs:
  - istio-system/istio-base
- name: istio-ingress
  namespace: istio-system
  chart: estafette/istio-ingress
  version: 1.11.1
  disableValidation: true
  needs:
  - istio-system/istio-system
- name: istio-egress
  namespace: istio-system
  chart: estafette/istio-egress
  version: 1.11.1
  disableValidation: true
  needs:
  - istio-system/istio-system

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