From 7e2cd01f1adb3516419c772dc748adf08fa81492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruslan Mstoi <ruslan.mstoi@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:45:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] README: document helm charts

Signed-off-by: Ruslan Mstoi <ruslan.mstoi@intel.com>
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 README.md        |  5 +++++
 charts/README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Table of Contents
 * [License](#license)
 * [Security](#security)
 * [Related code](#related-code)
+* [Helm charts](#helm-charts)
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -336,3 +337,7 @@ how Intel works to resolve security issues, see [Vulnerability Handling Guidelin
 ## Related code
 
 A related Intel SRIOV network device plugin can be found in [this repository](https://github.com/intel/sriov-network-device-plugin)
+
+### Helm charts
+
+The [helm charts](charts/README.md) is one way of distributing Kubernetes resources of the device plugins framework.
diff --git a/charts/README.md b/charts/README.md
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+## Helm charts
+
+Make "helm" target provides a way to to create a versioned chart archive file:
+
+```
+$ make helm
+```
+
+The generated chart archives can be uploaded to helm package repository to enable further distribution. It is also needed to generate an index file and upload it to the repository.
+
+```
+helm repo index intel-device-plugins-operator-VERSION.tgz
+```
+
+To download a chart directly from a repository, use the following commands:
+
+```
+$ helm pull intel-device-plugins-chart-repo/intel-device-plugins-helm-chart
+$ helm install intel-device-plugins intel-device-plugins-chart-repo/intel-device-plugins-helm-chart
+```