Contributing Guidelines

Required tooling

Helm 3: Most popular Kubernetes templating tool.
Helm Schema-gen: can be installed using helm plugin install https://github.com/mihaisee/helm-schema-gen.git. This tool is used to generate the json schema of the helm chart

change the loki upstream version in Chart dependencies (helm/loki/Chart.yaml)
run helm dependency update helm/loki to update the Chart.lock file
re-generate helm/loki/values.schema.json:
- helm schema-gen helm/loki/values.yaml > helm/loki/values.schema.json to re-generate the file.
- sed -i 's/"type": "null"/"type": ["string", "null"]/g' helm/loki/values.schema.json to accept strings for all null values.
if new paths are defined by loki API, update nginxConfig in example values.
update the link in the Configuration section of the README to point to the new tag configuration.
run helm-docs helm/loki