dirien/pulumi-skills

Pulumi infrastructure-as-code and Flux CD GitOps skills for Claude Code with ESC, OIDC, and cloud provider best practices.

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HelmRelease Commands

Name: dirien/pulumi-skills
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Author: dirien

HelmReleases tell Flux how to install and manage Helm charts.

flux create helmrelease

flux create helmrelease <name> [flags]

Flags

Flag	Default	Description
`--chart`	—	Helm chart name or path (required unless `--chart-ref` is set)
`--source`	—	Chart source: `<kind>/<name>.<namespace>`. Kind: `HelmRepository`, `GitRepository`, `Bucket`
`--chart-ref`	—	Reference to a HelmChart or OCIRepository: `<kind>/<name>.<namespace>`
`--chart-version`	—	Chart version (semver range accepted; ignored for Git sources)
`--chart-interval`	—	Interval to check for new chart versions
`--release-name`	—	Custom Helm release name (defaults to HelmRelease name)
`--target-namespace`	—	Namespace to install the chart into
`--storage-namespace`	—	Namespace for storing Helm release metadata
`--create-target-namespace`	`false`	Create target namespace if it doesn't exist
`--values`	—	Local path to values.yaml file(s) (repeatable)
`--values-from`	—	K8s object reference for values: `Secret/<name>` or `ConfigMap/<name>` (repeatable)
`--depends-on`	—	Dependencies: `<name>` or `<namespace>/<name>` (repeatable)
`--crds`	—	CRD upgrade policy: `Skip`, `Create`, `CreateReplace`
`--service-account`	—	Service account for impersonation
`--kubeconfig-secret-ref`	—	Secret with kubeconfig for remote cluster
`--reconcile-strategy`	`ChartVersion`	Strategy: `Revision` or `ChartVersion`
`--interval`	`1m`	Reconciliation interval
`--export`	—	Output YAML instead of applying
`--label`	—	Labels as `key=value` (repeatable)

Examples

# From a HelmRepository
flux create helmrelease nginx \
  --source=HelmRepository/bitnami \
  --chart=nginx \
  --chart-version=">=15.0.0" \
  --values=./nginx-values.yaml

# From a GitRepository (chart in repo)
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=GitRepository/my-app \
  --chart=./charts/my-app

# From a Bucket
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=Bucket/my-bucket \
  --chart=./charts/my-app

# With values from a Secret
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/my-charts \
  --chart=my-app \
  --values-from=Secret/my-app-values

# Multiple values files
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/my-charts \
  --chart=my-app \
  --values=./base-values.yaml \
  --values=./prod-values.yaml

# Custom release name and target namespace
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/my-charts \
  --chart=my-app \
  --release-name=my-custom-release \
  --target-namespace=apps \
  --create-target-namespace

# With dependencies
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/my-charts \
  --chart=my-app \
  --depends-on=cert-manager \
  --depends-on=kube-system/external-dns

# CRD handling
flux create helmrelease cert-manager \
  --source=HelmRepository/jetstack \
  --chart=cert-manager \
  --crds=CreateReplace

# Cross-namespace source reference
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/shared-charts.shared-ns \
  --chart=my-app

# From an OCIRepository
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --chart-ref=OCIRepository/my-oci-source

# Export YAML
flux create helmrelease my-app \
  --source=HelmRepository/my-charts \
  --chart=my-app \
  --export > helmrelease.yaml

flux debug helmrelease

Debug a failing HelmRelease — shows detailed status, last attempted values, and error messages.

flux debug helmrelease <name> [-n <namespace>]

Managing HelmReleases

# List
flux get helmreleases [-A] [-w] [--no-header]

# Filter
flux get helmreleases --status-selector ready=false
flux get helmreleases -l app=frontend

# Force reconciliation
flux reconcile helmrelease <name>

# Suspend/resume
flux suspend helmrelease <name>
flux suspend helmrelease --all
flux resume helmrelease <name>

# Export
flux export helmrelease <name>
flux export helmrelease --all > all-hr.yaml

# Delete
flux delete helmrelease <name>