Much of what I learned about Helm charting and running workloads in Kubernetes I credit to the contributors over at k8s-at-home. There expansive chart collection helped me start to jump in to Kubernetes.
Last year, they announced they were deprecating their repositories. I am not surprised: the sheer volume of charts they had meant they had to keep up to date with the latest releases from a number of vendors. If a vendor changed an image or configuration, well, someone had to fix it. That’s a lot of work for a small group with no real benefit other than “doing good for others.”
Thankfully, one of their contributors, Bernd Schorgers, continues to maintain a library chart that can be used as a basis for most of the charts I use.
Wanting to move off of the k8s-at-home charts for good, I spent some time this week migrating to Bernd’s library chart. I created new images for the following charts.
- Unifi Controller – Runs the jacobalberty docker image, including ports for various services
- Unifi Poller (Unpoller) – Runs Unpoller to collect Unifi statistics for Prometheus or InfluxDb
- Speedtest-Exporter – Runs a speedtest and exports results for Prometheus scrapes
- Proget – Run the Proget docker image in Kubernetes.
- Home Assistant – Run Homeassistant in Kubernetes.
- Node-Red – Run Node-Red in Kubernetes
Hopefully one or more of these templates can help move you off of the k8s-at-home charts.
A Huge Thanks
I cannot stress this enough: I owe a huge thanks to the k8s-at-home folks. Their work allowed me to jump into Helm by examining what they had done to understand where I could go. I appreciate their contributions to the community: past, present, and future.
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