feat(helm): add $HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE environment variable for signing helm charts (#4778)

* feat(helm): add $HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE environment variable for signing helm charts

If $HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE is set then helm package sign command will not prompt the
user to enter the passphrase for the private key

Signed-off-by: Anumita Shenoy <ansheno@microsoft.com>

* docs(helm):  added documentation for HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE

Added description for HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE

Signed-off-by: Anumita Shenoy <ansheno@microsoft.com>

cmd/helm/helm.go

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ Environment:
   $HELM_TLS_KEY        path to TLS client key file for authenticating to Tiller (default "$HELM_HOME/key.pem")
   $HELM_TLS_VERIFY     enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller and verify Tiller server certificate (default "false")
   $HELM_TLS_ENABLE     enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller (default "false")
+  $HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE set HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE to the passphrase of your PGP private key. If set, you will not be prompted for
+                       the passphrase while signing helm charts
+
 `
 
 func newRootCmd(args []string) *cobra.Command {

cmd/helm/package.go

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ func (p *packageCmd) clearsign(filename string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if err := signer.DecryptKey(promptUser); err != nil {
+	if err := signer.DecryptKey(passphraseFetcher); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -229,8 +229,13 @@ func (p *packageCmd) clearsign(filename string) error {
 	return ioutil.WriteFile(filename+".prov", []byte(sig), 0755)
 }
 
-// promptUser implements provenance.PassphraseFetcher
+// passphraseFetcher implements provenance.PassphraseFetcher
-func promptUser(name string) ([]byte, error) {
+func passphraseFetcher(name string) ([]byte, error) {
+	var passphrase = settings.HelmKeyPassphrase()
+	if passphrase != "" {
+		return []byte(passphrase), nil
+	}
+
 	fmt.Printf("Password for key %q >  ", name)
 	pw, err := terminal.ReadPassword(int(syscall.Stdin))
 	fmt.Println()

docs/helm/helm.md

@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Environment:
   $HELM_TLS_KEY        path to TLS client key file for authenticating to Tiller (default "$HELM_HOME/key.pem")
   $HELM_TLS_VERIFY     enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller and verify Tiller server certificate (default "false")
   $HELM_TLS_ENABLE     enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller (default "false")
+  $HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE set HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE to the passphrase of your PGP private key. If set, you will not be prompted for
+                       the passphrase while signing helm charts
+
 
 
 ### Options
@@ -75,4 +78,4 @@ Environment:
 * [helm verify](helm_verify.md)	 - verify that a chart at the given path has been signed and is valid
 * [helm version](helm_version.md)	 - print the client/server version information
 
-###### Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 4-Sep-2018
+###### Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 16-Oct-2018

docs/provenance.md

@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Prerequisites:
 - Keybase command line tools (optional)
 
 **NOTE:** If your PGP private key has a passphrase, you will be prompted to enter
-that passphrase for any commands that support the `--sign` option.
+that passphrase for any commands that support the `--sign` option. You can set the
+HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE environment variable to that passphrase in case you don't want 
+to be prompted to enter the passphrase.
 
 **NOTE:** The keyfile format for GnuPG changed in version 2.1. Prior to that release
 it was unnecessary to export keys out of GnuPG, and you could instead point Helm

pkg/helm/environment/environment.go

@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ func (s EnvSettings) PluginDirs() string {
 	return s.Home.Plugins()
 }
 
+// HelmKeyPassphrase is the passphrase used to sign a helm chart.
+func (s EnvSettings) HelmKeyPassphrase() string {
+	if d, ok := os.LookupEnv("HELM_KEY_PASSPHRASE"); ok {
+		return d
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
 // setFlagFromEnv looks up and sets a flag if the corresponding environment variable changed.
 // if the flag with the corresponding name was set during fs.Parse(), then the environment
 // variable is ignored.