Spinnaker Stage Bake (Manifest)
Internal
Overview
This stage renders the final form of a manifest or a multi-document manifest set, using a template renderer such as Helm.
Configuration
Bake (Manifest) Configuration
Template Renderer
Render Engine: HELM3
Helm Options
Name: the Helm release name for the chart. It determines the name of the artifact produced by this stage. This name will override the "Match Artifact/Name" specified in the Produces Artifact section.
Namespace: the target namespace to release into. If not specified, "default" will be used. ⚠️ There were (yet not elucidated) situations when even if a specific namespace was configured here, the deployment went to "default". That was fixed by overriding the namespace in the Deploy (Manifest) stage.
Template Artifact
Expected Artifact: Artifact from execution context
To define the helm chart to render, there are two choices: Helm repository or GitHub repository. In both cases, the chart to be deployed must be stored remotely as a .tar.gz
archive.
Helm Repository
GitHub Repository for Helm Chart
Account: GitHub
Content URL: https://github.domain.com/api/v3/repos/<organization>/<repository>/<path-inside-repository>
. Example: https://github.domain.com/api/v3/repos/ovidiuf/smoke/tmp/smoke-1.0.0.tgz
Commit/Branch: develop
Note that the GitHub repository must be configured for Spinnaker access.
The documentation seems to suggest that the chart can be stored in the GitHub repository in an exploded format, and the path to the Chart.yaml
is sufficient, either the path to the file itself or the path to the directory containing Chart.yaml
.
Overrides
The files passed to --values
parameter must be added as "Overrides/value artifact". Individually specified overrides can also be set in form of key/value pairs.
Execution Options
Produces Artifact
By default, Spinnaker automatically creates an embedded/base64
artifact that is bound when the stage completes, representing the full manifest set to be deployed downstream.
Example of Configured Stage
{
"expectedArtifacts": [
{
"defaultArtifact": {
"customKind": true,
"id": "a3b15bdc-8f73-4265-ba38-9be06cd6b4f2"
},
"displayName": "rendered-helm-chart",
"id": "c7202ead-c6f9-497a-9120-1957688ed2d8",
"matchArtifact": {
"artifactAccount": "embedded-artifact",
"customKind": false,
"id": "22a48f2b-2b62-46bd-9964-68b406a3c1c8",
"type": "embedded/base64"
},
"useDefaultArtifact": false,
"usePriorArtifact": false
}
],
"inputArtifacts": [
{
"account": "github",
"artifact": {
"artifactAccount": "github",
"id": "75ebe7b2-b04a-4fcd-a712-c7eacb06c348",
"name": "tmp/smoke-0.1.0.tgz",
"reference": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/repos/ovidiuf/smoke/contents/tmp/smoke-0.1.0.tgz",
"type": "github/file",
"version": "develop"
}
}
],
"name": "Render Helm",
"namespace": "of",
"outputName": "smoke",
"overrides": {},
"templateRenderer": "HELM3",
"type": "bakeManifest"
}