{{ now }} gives: 2019-05-30 04:40:35.847147175 +0000 UTC m=+1983611.179295260
and I would like to make this more human readable by grabbing the first 2 and joining = 2019-05-30-04:40:35.847147175.
How can this be done?
Failed attempt:
time: {{ now || splitList " " | (not sure how to slice first 2) | join "-" }}You should look through the whole list of Sprig date functions, where Sprig is a library of Go template functions that is included in Helm.
In particular you probably want the date function, which formats a time.Time value using a Go format string. As the linked documentation says:
...take this as the base date:
Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006Write it in the format you want.
So try something like
{{ now | date "2006-01-02 15:04:05.000000" }}The extended examples for the Go (*time.Time).Format function are probably relevant here too; for example, 15:04:05.999999 should drop trailing zeros if that's what you want.