Overview

HelmQA Design and Functionality

Formerly, software was built by composing libraries. Nowadays, in addition to that, complex applications are often built by glueing together microservices, including artefacts from different sources with varying care applied to the presentation of resulting 'apps'. HelmQA, which runs as a command-line tool or as a service, offers open source quality assurance by assessing the quality dimensions (completeness, consistency, accuracy, compliance) of declarative files such as Helm's Chart.yml, Helm templates and Kubernetes deployment descriptors. Run HelmQA in batch mode for occasional use, or in 'livecheck' mode for CI/CD integration with local Docker or hosted instance backends.

Code

HelmQA is maintained on Github. Check out the source (and docs), and contribute patches or pull requests to improve the software. For just running, probably you want the Docker image.

Demo

We have a permanently running instance of HelmQA that monitors KubeApps Hub on a daily basis and outputs static web reports.

Videos

Alright, nowadays we cannot have software without walk-through videos, so here you are (also available as asciicast and downloadable video files), and here's another, longer one.

Research

Now you caught us. We are just building this tool as an excuse for writing some boring papers! Check prereg challenge entry (which, alas, we lost), our first paper and our research overview blogpost. Also, MAO-MAO.

Feedback wanted

HelmQA is under heavy development. Sue us for the misappropriation of the Helm logo and for not properly integrating the functionality into 'helm lint'. Once done with ranting, please give us constructive feedback by e-mail.

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