Helm Release Script for Gitlab CI

helm-release.sh

#!/bin/bash

# build the helm charts
helm package ./charts/**

# for each .tgz file in the charts directory, create a release
for f in ./*.tgz
do
  # get the chart name
  chart_name=$(basename $f)
  # upload the chart to the helm repo
  curl  --request POST \
        --user gitlab-ci-token:$CI_JOB_TOKEN \
        --form "chart=@${chart_name}" \
        "${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/helm/api/stable/charts"
done

.gitlab-ci.yaml:

stages:
  - validate
  - release

helm-lint:
  stage: validate
  image: dtzar/helm-kubectl:3.5.3
  script:
    - helm lint charts/*

helm-release:
  stage: release
  image: dtzar/helm-kubectl:3.5.3
  script:
    - chmod +x ./scripts/helm-release.sh; ./scripts/helm-release.sh
  only:
    - tags