Simply follow this guide to migrate your project from v1.1 to v1.2.

0. Restriction of mounts usage

IMPORTANT There are v1.1 configurations that heavily use mount from build_dir and mount fromPath directives for such cases like caching of external dependencies (Gemfile, or package.json, or go.mod, etc.). While such mount directives still supported by the werf v1.2, it is not recommended for usage and is disabled by default by the giterminism mode (except mount from tmp_dir — this has not been forbidden) because it may lead to harmful, unreliable, host-dependent and nondeterministic builds. For such configurations there will be added a new feature to store such cache in the docker images, this feature is planned to be added into the werf v1.2, but it is not implemented yet. So if your configuration uses such mounts, then there are several options:

  1. Keep using v1.1 version until this feature is added into the werf v1.2.
  2. Completely remove mounts usage and wait until this feature is added into the werf v1.2.
  3. Describe and enable your mounts in werf v1.2 using the werf-giterminism.yaml (not recommended).

1. Use content based tagging

Content based tagging strategy is the default strategy and only choice to be used internally by the werf deploy process.

  • Remove --tagging-strategy ... param of werf ci-env command.
  • Remove --tag-custom, --tag-git-tag, --tag-git-branch, --tag-by-stages-signature params.
  • In the case when you need a certain docker tag for a built image to exist in the container registry to be used outside the werf, then use --report-path and --report-format options like follows:
    • werf build/converge --report-path=images-report.json --repo REPO;
    • docker pull $(cat images-report.json | jq -r .Images.IMAGE_NAME_FROM_WERF_YAML.DockerImageName);
    • docker tag $(cat images-report.json | jq -r .Images.IMAGE_NAME_FROM_WERF_YAML.DockerImageName) REPO:mytag;
    • docker push REPO:mytag.

2. Use converge command, remove build-and-publish command

  • Use werf converge command instead of werf deploy to build and publish images, and deploy into kubernetes.
    • All params are the same as for werf deploy.
  • werf build-and-publish command has been removed, there is only werf build command, usage of which is optional:
    • werf converge will build and publish needed images by itself, if not built already.
    • You may use werf build command in prebuild CI/CD pipeline stage instead of werf build-and-publish command.

3. Change helm templates

  • Use .Values.werf.image.IMAGE_NAME instead of werf_container_image as follows:

     spec:
   template:
     spec:
       containers:
         - name: main
           image: {{ .Values.werf.image.myimage }}
    • IMPORTANT Notice usage of apiVersion: v2 to allow description of dependencies directly in the .helm/Chart.yaml instead of .helm/dependencies.yaml.
  • Remove werf_container_env template usage completely.
  • Use .Values.werf.env instead of .Values.global.env.
  • Use .Values.werf.namespace instead of .Values.global.namespace.
  • Use "werf.io/replicas-on-creation": "NUM" annotation instead of "werf.io/set-replicas-only-on-creation": "true".

4. Use .helm/Chart.lock for subcharts

  • Due to giterminism werf does not allow uncommitted .helm/charts dir.

  • To use subcharts specify dependencies in the .helm/Chart.yaml like that:

      # .helm/Chart.yaml
  apiVersion: v2
  dependencies:
   - name: redis
     version: "12.7.4"
     repository: "https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami"
  • Add .helm/charts into the .gitignore.
  • Run werf helm dependency update command, which will create .helm/Chart.lock file and .helm/charts dir.
  • Commit .helm/Chart.lock file into the project git repo.
  • werf will automatically download subcharts into the cache and load subchart files in werf converge command (and other toplevel commands which require helm chart).
  • More info in the docs.

5. Cleanup by git history

6. Define environment variables in werf-giterminism.yaml

  • NOTE It is not recommended to use environment variables in the werf.yaml, more info in the article.

  • If you use environment variables in your werf.yaml, then use the following werf-giterminism.yaml snippet (for example to enable ENV_VAR1 and ENV_VAR2 variables):

      # werf-giterminism.yaml
  giterminismConfigVersion: 1
  config:
    goTemplateRendering:
      allowEnvVariables:
        - ENV_VAR1
        - ENV_VAR2

7. Adjust werf.yaml configuration

  • Change relative include paths from {{ include “.werf/templates/1.tmpl” . }} to {{ include “templates/1.tmpl” . }}.
  • Rename fromImageArtifact to fromArtifact.

8. Define custom .helm chart dir in the werf.yaml

  • --helm-chart-dir has been removed, use deploy.helmChartDir directive in werf.yaml like follows:

      configVersion: 1
  deploy:
    helmChartDir: .helm2

  • Consider using different layout for your project: werf v1.2 supports multiple werf.yaml applications in the single git repo.

    • Instead of defining a different deploy.helmChartDir in your werf.yaml, create multiple werf.yaml in subfolders of your project.
    • Each subfolder will contain own .helm directory.
    • Run werf from the subfolder in such case.
    • All relative paths specified in the werf.yaml should be adjusted to the subfolder where werf.yaml stored.
    • Absolute paths specified with git.add directive should use absolute paths from the root of the git repo (these paths settings are compatible with 1.1).

9. Migrate to helm 3

  • werf v1.2 performs migration of existing helm 2 release to helm 3 automatically.
    • Helm 2 release should have the same name as newly used helm 3 release.
  • Before migrating werf will try to render and validate current .helm/templates and continue migration only when render succeeded.
  • IMPORTANT Once project has been migrated to helm 3 there is no legal way back to the werf v1.1 and helm 2.