<p>I am trying to package a helm chart on my CI server without having to helm init</p>

<pre><code>  docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/tmp/src/ -w /tmp/src/ alpine/helm helm package ./charts
  docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/tmp/src/ -w /tmp/src/ alpine/helm  helm init --client-only &amp;&amp; helm package ./charts
</code></pre>

<p>The above do not work can anyone help! i thought this would be a common request the ability to create a helm package without the .kube folder or access to a cluster</p>

<p>You might want to look into the <a href="https://github.com/kiwigrid/helm-maven-plugin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">helm-maven-plugin</a></p>

<p>Basically you can use Maven to get the same result, and should be able to do it from most CI software.</p>
