What is the equivalent of the --set functionality for helm install command, when using ansible community.kubernetes.helm plugin?

Question

I want to deploy helm chart using ansible-playbook, my command looks like this:

helm install istio-operator manifests/charts/istio-operator --set operatorNamespace=istio-operator

however I could not find the equivalent for the --set arguments in the ansible plugin.

Answer 1

The bad news is the documentation fails to document the values: parameter, but one can see its use in the Examples section

- community.kubernetes.helm:
    name: istio-operator
    chart_ref: manifests/charts/istio-operator
    values:
      operatorNamespace: istio-operator

If for some reason that doesn't work, using --set is (plus or minus) the same as putting that key-value pair in a yaml file and then calling --values $the_filename, so you'd want to do that same operation only manually: create the file on the target machine (not the controller), then invoke c...k...helm: with the documented values_files: pointed at that newly created yaml file