Templated fields, use generated tag for helm appVersion

[msonnleitner]

Expected behavior

Support for using the generated tag to use in deployment, e.g. using that in the appVersionfield of the helm deployment

Actual behavior

Currently, the tag cannot (afaik) be used in that context.

Information

• Skaffold version: v1.17.0
• Contents of skaffold.yaml:

apiVersion: skaffold/v2beta8
kind: Config
metadata:
  name: some-service
build:
  artifacts:
    - image: eu.gcr.io/tools-org/some-service
deploy:
  helm:
    releases:
      - name: some-service
        chartPath: helm/some-service
        artifactOverrides:
          image: eu.gcr.io/tools-org/some-service
        packaged:
          appVersion: {{.GENERATED_TAG}}

[nkubala]

@msonnleitner the tag skaffold generates is actually available using {{.IMAGE_TAG}}. this was added in #4278 and shipped with v1.11.0.

[msonnleitner]

That variable exists, however I could not get it to work in appVersion.

So basically it seems that

• appVersion takes ENV variables like FOO
• appVersion does not take IMAGE_TAG
• IMAGE_TAG works in setValueTemplates

[malins]

Hello @msonnleitner,

have you been able to solve this? I'm also trying to get the built tag into my helm chart as appVersion, but I'm failing.

Thank you,
Manuel

[msonnleitner]

Hi @malins
I haven't been able to solve that