make helm part of the system packages

[obeleh]

There are a few helm implementations I saw in this discussion it would be nice if helm would have been a built-in package of KCL. In fact, if I would make a feature (wish)list, this would be definitely on top.

helm.template(
    chart="example",
    target_revision="0.1.0",
    repo_url="https://example.com/charts",
)

It would bring KCL to a more central place in my tooling to render YAML. Right now I'm calling both KCL and Helm from Taskfiles. But it would be nice to have KCL build everything

@zong-zhe

[mikecameronh1]

I asked a similar question recently. See https://github.com/orgs/kcl-lang/discussions/1774

My understanding is that you must create a custom KCL plugin using either Python, Go, Java, or Rust. This plugin would expose the functionality to template a Helm chart with your own values, etc. Say you created a Go plugin with compiled binary kclx, you would simply replace all CLI calls from kcl to kclx.

A great example of this can be found in cakehappens/kcfoil.

Downside of this approach in my opinion is that you will have to maintain a wrapper around the kcl CLI.