use github pages to host official helm chart repository

[jackfrancis]

What would you like to be added:

This is a proposal to consider using the github pages feature to host the helm chart repo, rather than hosting it in a static directory in the repo. It looks like there is a gh-pages branch that hasn't been updated in over a year, so maybe we can use it for this?

I've had success in other projects using this github action to accomplish this goal:

https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser-action

Why is this needed:

Not 100% required, but would make helm chart downloads easier for users. Compare:

• helm install --repo https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/cloud-provider-azure/

to

• helm install --repo https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/master/helm/repo

The former (which is what a gh-pages-backed repo would look like) is cleaner IMO.

[jaanhio]

hello @jackfrancis , i am happy to work on this if it isn't taken yet.

but one clarification i have is, is the intention to remove the existing hugo pages and replace it with hosting of helm chart repo or have both the hugo pages and helm chart repo hosted together?

[jackfrancis]

I don't believe you can get both (the chart-releaser-action takes over the entire hugo implementation as far as I can tell).

cc @lzhecheng @feiskyer for permissions to overwrite the existing github pages content

[bridgetkromhout]

@jackfrancis This repo's ghpages branch is in use with some current updates now: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/tree/gh-pages

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[Sajiyah-Salat]

is this pr still valid?

[feiskyer]

yes, better to host with github pages, but we need to check how to host both charts and website together.

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