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Intro

Let's discover Helmper in less than 5 minutes.

Getting Started

Get started by installing helmper and creating a new configuration.

What you'll need

  • Container Runtime for external services (Registries, Trivy, Buildkit)
    • Podman
    • Docker
      • Make sure to follow post-install steps to run without root

Install Helmper

Simply download the latest version of Helmper from GitHub Releases

Linux

bash
VERSION=$(curl -Lso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/christoffernissen/helmper/releases/latest | grep -o '[^/]*$')
curl -LO https://github.com/christoffernissen/helmper/releases/download/$VERSION/helmper-linux-amd64
chmod +x helmper-linux-amd64
sudo mv helmper-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/helmper

Configuration

Create the configuration file

$HOME/.config/helmper/helmper.yaml
k8s_version: 1.31.1
import:
enabled: true
charts:
- name: prometheus
version: 25.8.0
valuesFilePath: /workspace/in/values/prometheus/values.yaml # (Optional)
repo:
name: prometheus-community
url: https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts/
registries:
- name: registry
url: oci://0.0.0.0:5000
insecure: true
plainHTTP: true

Start local service

Registry

bash
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --restart=always --name registry registry:2

Run Helmper

Run Helmper
helmper