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From: Scott Rigby <scott@r6by.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:32:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Initial Readme

Signed-off-by: Scott Rigby <scott@r6by.com>
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+# Chart releaser action
+
+A GitHub action to turn a GitHub repo into a self-hosted Helm chart repo, using [helm/chart-releaser](https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser) CLI tool.
+
+## Usage
+
+### Pre-requisites
+
+1. A GitHub repo containing a directory with your Helm charts (eg: `/charts`)
+1. A GitHub token
+1. Create a workflow `.yml` file in your `.github/workflows` directory. An [example workflow](#example-workflow) is available below. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for [Creating a workflow file](https://help.github.com/en/articles/configuring-a-workflow#creating-a-workflow-file).
+
+### Inputs
+
+For more information on these inputs, see the [API Documentation](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#input)
+
+- `charts-dir`: The charts directory
+- `charts-repo-url`: The GitHub Pages URL to the charts repo (default: `https://<owner>.github.io/<repo>`)
+- `token`: The GitHub token
+
+### Example workflow
+
+Create a workflow (eg: .github/workflows/chart-testing.yml see Creating a Workflow file):
+
+```yaml
+name: chart actions
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:    
+      - master 
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: Run chart-releaser
+        uses: helm/chart-releaser-action@v1
+        with:
+          token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+```
+
+This uses [`@helm/chart-releaser-action`](https://www.github.com/helm/chart-releaser-action) to turn a GitHub repo into a self-hosted Helm chart repo. It does this – during every push to `master` – by checking each chart in your GitHub repo, and whenever there's a new chart version, creates a corresponding [GitHub release](https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/about-releases) named for the chart version, adds Helm chart artifacts to the release, and creates or updates an `index.yaml` file with metadata about those releases which is then hosted on GitHub Pages.
+
+## Code of conduct
+
+Participation in the Helm community is governed by the [Code of Conduct](code-of-conduct.md).