hsww/nelm repository overview

⁠nelm — multi-arch Docker image

Docker image packaging werf/nelm⁠, a Helm alternative for deploying Helm Charts to Kubernetes. The image also bundles the latest stable kubectl.

Published to:

• Docker Hub: hsww/nelm⁠
• GHCR: ghcr.io/hsw/nelm⁠

Platforms: linux/amd64, linux/arm64. Binaries are verified against the upstream GPG signature during build.

⁠Tags

Images are published to both hsww/nelm⁠ on Docker Hub and ghcr.io/hsw/nelm⁠ on GHCR. Multi-arch: linux/amd64, linux/arm64.

⁠Quality labels

These labels follow upstream quality promotions⁠ and move to newer versions over time.

• latest → 1.25.2
• rock-solid → 1.23.2
• stable → 1.24.0

⁠Recent versions

• 1.25.2 — also 1.25, 1, latest
• 1.25.0
• 1.24.0 — also 1.24, stable
• 1.23.2 — also 1.23, rock-solid
• 1.23.1
• 1.23.0
• 1.22.0 — also 1.22
• 1.21.0 — also 1.21
• 1.20.1 — also 1.20
• 1.20.0

⁠Pull examples

docker pull hsww/nelm:rock-solid
docker pull hsww/nelm:stable
docker pull hsww/nelm:1.25.2

⁠About nelm

Nelm is a Kubernetes deployment tool built on a partially rewritten Helm codebase. Compared to Helm it adds, among other things:

• terraform plan-style release planning
• improved CRD management
• out-of-the-box secrets management
• advanced resource ordering and lifecycle
• continuous streaming of logs, events, and resource status during deploy
• hundreds of Helm bug fixes

It is backward-compatible with Helm Charts and Helm Releases — no migration needed.

See the upstream README⁠ for the full feature list, CLI reference, and documentation.

⁠Usage

# Show version
docker run --rm hsww/nelm:stable nelm version

# Render a chart from the current directory
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/chart" -w /chart hsww/nelm:stable \
  nelm chart render

# Deploy using your host kubeconfig
docker run --rm \
  -v "$HOME/.kube:/root/.kube:ro" \
  -v "$PWD:/chart" -w /chart \
  hsww/nelm:stable \
  nelm release install -n myproject -r myproject

Default command is nelm. Both nelm and kubectl are on PATH, so any command can be overridden (e.g. docker run --rm hsww/nelm:stable kubectl version --client).

⁠Tag policy

• Semver tags (x.y.z, x.y, x) follow nelm releases.
• Quality labels (ea, stable, rock-solid, latest) move to newer versions automatically, matching upstream promotions.

The tag-to-version mapping shown at the top of this page is refreshed daily by CI.