[plugin] Helm with helm list

[casual-lemon]

I'd like to suggest adding a plugin for helm, specifically helm list to show which charts are installed. If you're using Kubernetes, it is highly likely you have helm and are using helm charts. Thanks!

[TurboTurtle]

We can certainly do that. Is there anything beyond helm list you'd like to see? Any inspection to be done on whatever items helm list reports? Any files we should collect? Is there a standard naming for helm packaging across distros?

[casual-lemon]

I think helm list -a (all) is a good place to start.

It would be very helpful to show any subcharts that also get installed by a parent chart.

• helm dependency list

Is there a standard naming for helm packaging across distros?
No, not that I'm aware of. I'll double check tho. And you can assign it to me.

[casual-lemon]

helm list -a
NAME                 	NAMESPACE	REVISION	UPDATED                                	STATUS  	CHART                       	APP VERSION
kube-prometheus-stack	default  	1       	2024-02-02 15:30:04.092878517 +0000 UTC	deployed	kube-prometheus-stack-56.6.0	v0.71.2    
nvidia-exporter      	default  	1       	2024-02-02 15:32:30.400010235 +0000 UTC	deployed	dcgm-exporter-3.3.1         	3.3.1      
nvidia-gpu-exporter  	default  	1       	2024-02-02 18:08:03.550038253 +0000 UTC	deployed	nvidia-gpu-exporter-0.3.1   	0.3.0  

I did find the best practices guide for naming conventions -
https://helm.sh/docs/chart_best_practices/conventions/
Thanks!

[arif-ali]

curious, what can we get from the helm cli that we cannot get from the kubectl command that would be useful. Here's something I got out of sos. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/s5sKkbg3R2/. At least that's what we would get once #3501 is refactored and merged

Just doing a simple on in my lab, I installed helm via snap (so, we could easily do packages = ('helm',). The rest could follow as a simple command collection

[casual-lemon]

Hi Arif,

The output from helm is specific to charts and what's installed. Specifically we're interested in chart version and their dependencies which kubectl knows nothing about.

Thanks
Heather Lemon

[arif-ali]

The output from helm is specific to charts and what's installed. Specifically we're interested in chart version and their dependencies which kubectl knows nothing about.

cool, sounds good to me :). deffo sounds like a new plugin then