chart-doc-gen

Helm Chart Documentation Generator

$ go run *.go \
    -d=./testdata/doc.yaml \
    -v=./testdata/values.yaml > ./testdata/README.md

Installation

Download the pre-built binaries from release page and copy to your $PATH directory.

How does it work

chart-doc-gen takes a doc.yaml file and fills it with a values table auto generated from a chart values file. Then it renders to stdout a README.md file based on readme template.

chart-doc-gen walks a chart values file and generates a row for each leaf node in the values YAML document. The description of each leaf node must be written above it in comments. You can find an example generated README.md from a values file.

Sometimes you may provide an object as default value for a parameter. To break out from the tree walk in that case, add a line comment +doc-gen:break to the right of the parameter.

You can also add an example for --set key=value command in the comments. To do so, add a line # Example: and write the example commands in the comments below. The example lines will be broken by <br > in the generated values table.