# Install chart-releaser with Homebrew

Hosting Helm Charts via GitHub Pages and Releases. Version 1.8.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chart-releaser
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chart-releaser
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chart-releaser
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.1
- **Source summary:** Hosting Helm Charts via GitHub Pages and Releases
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T19:20:59+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cr (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.8.1
## Project history and usage

Chart Releaser is a Helm project CLI that turns a GitHub repository into a Helm chart repository by attaching packaged charts to GitHub Releases and generating an `index.yaml` suitable for GitHub Pages.

### Project history

The Helm organization created the chart-releaser repository in August 2018. Public release metadata shows the 0.x series in early 2019, a 1.0.0 beta tag before the stable 1.x line, and a current 1.8.1 release in June 2025.

### Adoption history

Chart Releaser was adopted mainly through GitHub-hosted Helm chart repositories and CI pipelines. The README documents binary releases, the `helm/tap` Homebrew installation path, a Docker image on Quay for CI, and use through `helm/chart-releaser-action`.

### How it is used

Common use is `cr package`, `cr upload`, and `cr index`: package charts, upload `.tgz` artifacts to GitHub Releases, then build or push the chart repository index. The README documents `$HOME/.cr.yaml`, `CR_` environment variables, and command-line flags with CLI-over-env-over-config precedence.

### Why package nerds care

Chart Releaser is important because it made a low-infrastructure Helm distribution pattern common: a normal GitHub repository can publish chart tarballs and an index without running a separate chart repository service. It is a small packaging bridge between Helm chart metadata, GitHub Releases, GitHub Pages, and CI.

### Timeline

- 2018-08: Helm chart-releaser repository created.
- 2019-02: Early public 0.x GitHub releases are available.
- 2025-06: Latest upstream GitHub release metadata lists v1.8.1.

### Related projects

- Helm is the Kubernetes package manager whose chart artifacts Chart Releaser publishes.
- helm/chart-releaser-action wraps the CLI for GitHub Actions workflows.
- GitHub Releases and GitHub Pages are the distribution surfaces targeted by the tool.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/helm/chart-releaser>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/helm/chart-releaser/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.cr.yaml

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/chart-releaser.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/chart-releaser.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph