Summary
Invoking the Helm CLI in CI and CD pipelines is an efficient way of further abstracting the capabilities that Helm provides. Chart developers can automate the end-to-end chart development process by writing a CI pipeline that lints, tests, packages, and releases charts to a chart repository. End users can write a CD pipeline that uses Helm to deploy a chart across multiple different environments, leveraging GitOps to ensure applications can be deployed and configured as code. Writing pipelines helps developers and companies scale applications faster and more easily by abstracting and automating processes that could otherwise become tedious and introduce human error.
In the next chapter, we will introduce another option for abstracting the Helm CLI—writing a Helm operator.
