FairwindsOps / Nova

Find outdated or deprecated Helm charts running in your cluster.

Nova scans your cluster for installed Helm charts, then cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it finds an updated version of the chart you're using, or notices your current version is deprecated, it will let you know.

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Quickstart

$ go get github.com/fairwindsops/nova
$ nova find --helm-version=auto

Release Name      Installed    Latest     Old     Deprecated
cert-manager      v0.11.0      v0.15.2    true    false
insights-agent    0.21.0       0.21.1     true    false
grafana           2.1.3        3.1.1      true    false
metrics-server    2.8.8        2.11.1     true    false
nginx-ingress     1.25.0       1.40.3     true    false

Installation

From GitHub Releases

Visit the releases page to find the release that's right for your environment. For example, on Linux:

curl -L "https://github.com/FairwindsOps/nova/releases/download/1.0.0/nova_1.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz" > nova.tar.gz
tar -xvf nova.tar.gz
sudo mv nova /usr/local/bin/

Homebrew

brew tap fairwindsops/tap
brew install fairwindsops/tap/nova

From source

go get github.com/fairwindsops/nova

Usage

nova find --helm-version=auto --wide

Options

• --helm-version - which version of Helm to use. Options are 2, 3, and auto (default is 3)
• --wide - show Chart Name and Namespace
• --output-file - output JSON to a file

Output

Below is sample output for Nova

CLI

Release Name      Installed    Latest     Old     Deprecated
cert-manager      v0.11.0      v0.15.2    true    false
insights-agent    0.21.0       0.21.1     true    false
grafana           2.1.3        3.1.1      true    false
metrics-server    2.8.8        2.11.1     true    false
nginx-ingress     1.25.0       1.40.3     true    false

JSON

{
    "helm": [
        {
            "release": "cert-manager",
            "chartName": "cert-manager",
            "namespace": "cert-manager",
            "description": "A Helm chart for cert-manager",
            "home": "https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager",
            "icon": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetstack/cert-manager/master/logo/logo.png",
            "Installed": {
                "version": "v0.11.0",
                "appVersion": "v0.11.0"
            },
            "Latest": {
                "version": "v0.16.0",
                "appVersion": "v0.16.0"
            },
            "outdated": true,
            "deprecated": false
        }
    ]
}