Using manifest files in conjunction with command line argument can be a bit confusing.
A few rules to clear up this ambiguity:
- Absolute paths are always resolved as absolute paths
- Relative paths referenced in the helmfile manifest itself are relative to that manifest
- Relative paths referenced on the command line are relative to the current working directory the user is in
There are several examples that we can go through in the /examples folder which demonstrate this.
Local Execution
This is an example of a Helmfile manifest referencing a local value directly.
Indirect:
helmfile -f examples/deployments/local/charts.yaml sync
Direct:
cd examples/deployments/local/
helmfile sync
Relative Paths in Helmfile
This is an example of a Helmfile manifest using relative paths for values.
Indirect:
helmfile -f examples/deployments/dev/charts.yaml sync
Direct:
cd examples/deployments/dev/
helmfile sync
Relative Paths in Helmfile w/ --values overrides
This is an example of a Helmfile manifest using relative paths for values including an additional --values from the command line.
NOTE: The --values is resolved relative to the CWD of the terminal not the Helmfile manifest. You can see this with the replicas being adjusted to 3 now for the deployment.
Indirect:
helmfile -f examples/deployments/dev/charts.yaml sync --values values/replica-values.yaml
Direct:
cd examples/deployments/dev/
helmfile sync --values ../../values/replica-values.yaml