Is there some convenient way to use a Helm chart from a specific commit or some dev version?

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

Related to #44813.
It would be helpful to have some Helm chart changes being used when trying to configure a self-hosted Airflow. There are some instructions about setting up a chart repo, but that seems cumbersome, so I wonder if there's something already in place for this.
Alternatively, how hard is it to create 1.15.1 with some changes cherry picked and release it soon? I'm happy to contribute PRs to do that if that's an option.

[potiuk]

You can release the chart from main version yourself - it's just a matter of following the steps there https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/dev/README_RELEASE_HELM_CHART.md -> and publishing it somewhere you can install it from (local folder if you are self-hosting it is enough).

When it comes to releases - best place to go and ask for it interactively is #release-management channel in Airfow Slack - I guess it's a matter of having a number of other things and Airflow 3 preparation, and holiday period does not help - and also some of the thinking around breaking/non-breaking release and testing quite some testing. If think the best way to help there is not to have PRs but mostly to do some manual testing of what is already there and confirming that all the features added since the last release are working, the release process itself is easy, but having at lest rudimentary check on all the features added so far and reporting "this has been testeid - this is the result" is one of the best ways to make the release faster.

Would you agree on that @jedcunningham ? And @andrii-korotkov-verkada - would you be fine with spending some effort on testing it?

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

For adhoc chart hosting in my Github repo, do I understand correctly that I can just follow https://helm.sh/docs/topics/chart_repository/#github-pages-example and then commit and push index.html and generated *.tgz.* artifacts into my branch?

[potiuk]

I don't think you need index. We simply publish it following release process, I guess just publishing the right .tar.gz file via any webserver should be good https://downloads.apache.org/airflow/helm-chart/1.15.0/

But I am not 100% sure.

[jedcunningham]

You can also just point helm at your local airflow clone too. I almost always do it that way. No need to package it.

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

I'll probably package it, since I wanna it to be reproducible if someone else wants to check out the code and do some updates.

[andrii-korotkov-verkada]

Seems like the minimal setup for publishing as GH page is having *.tgz and index.html files in the root of the repo in gh-pages branch. Then just specifying the repo url in the chart like https://andrii-korotkov-verkada.github.io/airflow