From 803f7c706ef4ce44aa6418c42c77dbf7e60ac66d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Helgi=20=C3=9Eormar=20=C3=9Eorbj=C3=B6rnsson?=
 <helgith@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:30:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add a keepalive of 30s to the client (#3183)

---
 pkg/helm/client.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/helm/client.go b/pkg/helm/client.go
index dbaf01d96..33d56e88d 100644
--- a/pkg/helm/client.go
+++ b/pkg/helm/client.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/net/context"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc/credentials"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc/keepalive"
 
 	"k8s.io/helm/pkg/chartutil"
 	"k8s.io/helm/pkg/proto/hapi/chart"
@@ -289,6 +290,11 @@ func (h *Client) connect(ctx context.Context) (conn *grpc.ClientConn, err error)
 	opts := []grpc.DialOption{
 		grpc.WithTimeout(5 * time.Second),
 		grpc.WithBlock(),
+		grpc.WithKeepaliveParams(keepalive.ClientParameters{
+			// Send keepalive every 30 seconds to prevent the connection from
+			// getting closed by upstreams
+			Time: time.Duration(30) * time.Second,
+		}),
 	}
 	switch {
 	case h.opts.useTLS: