How to write a chart for imagePullSecret from gcr

10/26/2017

I'm trying to write Helm Charts for our product. The images are stored on GCR private repo. The charts for all components are ready, but I'm trying to write a YAML file in a chart for imagePullSecrets. I've read chart tips from here,

I also know how to create imagePullSecret with:

kubectl create secret docker-registry mydockercfg \
        --docker-server "https://eu.gcr.io" \
        --docker-username _json_key \
        --docker-email not@val.id \
        --docker-password=$(cat your_service_account.json)

But I don't know how to fill the content of "your_service_account.json" to password of values.yaml of that Chart. It's better I can change the name "your_service_account.json" to update the password of values.yaml.

Currently, My implementation is as follows:

$ cat values.yaml
secretName: gcr-json-key-test
imageCredentials:
  registry: us.gcr.io/xxxxx
  username: _json_key
  password:

Contents of secrets.yaml:

$ cat templates/secrets.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: {{ .Values.secretName }}
    labels:
    app: {{ template "fullname" . }}
    chart: "{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version }}"
    release: "{{ .Release.Name }}"
    heritage: "{{ .Release.Service }}"
type: kubernetes.io/dockercfg
data:
  .dockerconfigjson: {{ template "imagePullSecret" . }}

Contents of _helpers.tpl:

$ cat templates/_helpers.tpl
{{/*
Expand the name of the chart.
*/}}
{{- define "name" -}}
{{- default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
{{- end -}}
{{/*
Create a default fully qualified app name.
We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited 
to this (by the DNS naming spec).
 */}}
{{- define "fullname" -}}
{{- $name := default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride -}}
{{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name $name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- define "imagePullSecret" }}
{{- printf "{\"auths\": {\"%s\": {\"auth\": \"%s\"}}}" .Values.imageCredentials.registry (printf "%s:%s" .Values.imageCredentials.username .Values.imageCredentials.password | b64enc) | b64enc }}
{{- end }}

And then using

$ helm install ./secrets --set imageCredentials.password "$(cat ./my_service_account.json)"

Will result an error:

Error: This command needs 1 argument: chart name

How can I solve this problem?

-- Aaron LUO
kubernetes
kubernetes-helm

1 Answer

11/24/2017

It can be created and deployed using the following steps:

Steps:

  1. Create base64 encoded string using your docker_username and docker_password

    $ echo -n "docker_username:docker_password" | base64
    ZG9rY2VyX3VzZXI6ZG9ja2VyX3Bhc3N3b3Jk
  2. Place the encoded string obtained in the Step 1 as value for auth key in the following Json and fill the required details.

    {
      "https://eu.gcr.io":
       { 
         "username":"docker_user",
         "password":"docker_password",
         "email":"docker@gamil.com",
         "auth":"ZG9rY2VyX3VzZXI6ZG9ja2VyX3Bhc3N3b3Jk",
       }
     }
    
  3. Reduce this json into a string enclosed by single quote:

    '{"https://eu.gcr.io":{"username":"docker_user","password":"docker_password","email":"docker@gamil.com","auth":"ZG9rY2VyX3VzZXI6ZG9ja2VyX3Bhc3N3b3Jk"}}'
  4. Create base64 encoded string for the above Json string as follows:

    $ echo -n '{"https://eu.gcr.io":{"username":"docker_user","password":"docker_password","email":"docker@gamil.com","auth":"ZG9rY2VyX3VzZXI6ZG9ja2VyX3Bhc3N3b3Jk"}}' | base64 
    eyJodHRwczovL2V1Lmdjci5pbyI6eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImRva2Nlcl91c2VyIiwicGFzc3dvcmQiOiJkb2NrZXJfcGFzc3dvcmQiLCJlbWFpbCI6ImRvY2tlckBnYW1pbC5jb20iLCJhdXRoIjoiWkc5clkyVnlYM1Z6WlhJNlpHOWphMlZ5WDNCaGMzTjNiM0prIn19
    
  5. Create secret.yml in the following format:

    $ cat templates/secrets.yaml
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Secret
    metadata:
       name: {{ .Values.secretName }}
       labels:
         app: {{ template "fullname" . }}
         chart: "{{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version }}"
         release: "{{ .Release.Name }}"
         heritage: "{{ .Release.Service }}"
    type: kubernetes.io/dockercfg
    data:
      .dockercfg: {{ .Values.dockercfg }}
  6. Place the encoded string obtained in Step 4 in the value.yaml:

    $ cat values.yaml
    secretName: gcr-json-key-test
    dockercfg:
  7. Install the chart using the following command:

    $ helm install ./secrets -n release_name --set dockecfg="eyJodHRwczovL2V1Lmdjci5pbyI6eyJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImRva2Nlcl91c2VyIiwicGFzc3dvcmQiOiJkb2NrZXJfcGFzc3dvcmQiLCJlbWFpbCI6ImRvY2tlckBnYW1pbC5jb20iLCJhdXRoIjoiWkc5clkyVnlYM1Z6WlhJNlpHOWphMlZ5WDNCaGMzTjNiM0prIn19" --debug

    or store it in a file ( .dockercfg ) and use the following command

    $ helm install ./secrets -n release_name --set dockecfg="$(cat ./.dockercfg )"

Hope this will be useful...!! :)

-- codenio
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