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Push and pull Helm charts to Azure container Registry

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Overview

This article shows you how to push and pull Helm charts to an Azure container Registry. As for Helm charts, we are going to use Helm charts saved in this directory.

Terms and concepts

OCI

Open Container Initiative

ACR

Azure Container Registry

Prerequisites

  • Azure container registry

  • Helm

Save charts to local archive

To save charts to a local archive, run the following command:

$ helm package service-foundry-builder

Authenticate with the registry

To authenticate with the registry, run the following command:

$ ACR_NAME="your-acr-name"
$ USER_NAME="helmtoken"
$ PASSWORD=$(az acr token create -n $USER_NAME \
                  -r $ACR_NAME \
                  --scope-map _repositories_admin \
                  --only-show-errors \
                  --query "credentials.passwords[0].value" -o tsv)

$ az acr login -n $ACR_NAME --username $USER_NAME --password $PASSWORD
Login Succeeded

Push charts to the registry as OCI artifacts

To push charts to the registry as OCI artifacts, run the following command:

$ helm push service-foundry-builder-0.1.0.tgz oci://$ACR_NAME.azurecr.io/helm

List charts in the repository

To list charts in the repository, run the following command:

$ az acr repository list -n $ACR_NAME  | grep helm

Install Helm charts from the registry

To install Helm charts from the registry, run the following command:

$ helm -n service-foundry install service-foundry-builder oci://$ACR_NAME.azurecr.io/helm/service-foundry-builder --version 0.1.0

$ helm -n service list

Conclusion

In this article, we have learned how to push and pull Helm charts to an Azure container Registry. We have also learned how to install Helm charts from the registry.

This document is available with better formatting at: https://nsalexamy.github.io/service-foundry/pages/documents/blog/azure-push-helm-charts/

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