# kubectl-helm-action

**Repository Path**: bamanker/kubectl-helm-action

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: kubectl-helm-action
- **Description**: A Github action for using kubectl and helm to deploy applications to Kubernetes cluster
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-12-26
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-26

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# kubectl-helm-action

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A Github action for using kubectl and helm to deploy applications to Kubernetes cluster

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## How to use

### Set up `KUBE_CONFIG_DATA` secret

Encode your `kubeconfig` file with base64 encoding.

```bash
cat $HOME/.kube/config | base64
```
Store the encoded string as a secret with name `KUBE_CONFIG_DATA`, by navigating to your repo -> Settings -> Secrets -> Add a new secret

### Config a Github workflow

Create a workflow file `.github/workflows/deploy.yaml`

```yaml
on: push
name: deploy
jobs:
  deploy:
    name: deploy to cluster
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: deploy to cluster
      uses: wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@master
      env:
        KUBE_CONFIG_DATA: ${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG_DATA }}
      with:
        args: kubectl apply -f manifest.yaml
```

Or you may want to deploy applications with `helm`

```yaml
- name: deploy postgres to cluster
  uses: wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@master
  env:
    KUBE_CONFIG_DATA: ${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG_DATA }}
  with:
    args: |
      helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
      helm upgrade --install postgres -n data bitnami/postgresql

```

## Switch versions

You can switch to different helm version by using different tags, current the master branch uses helm `3.13`

* 3.12 wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@3.12
* 3.13 wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@3.13
* 3.14 wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@3.14
* 3.15 wahyd4/kubectl-helm-action@3.15

## Thanks

This repo is inspired by [steebchen/kubectl](https://github.com/steebchen/kubectl), thanks.