helm-docs
brew install helm-docs
v1.14.2
GPL-3.0-or-later
Tool for automatically generating markdown documentation for helm charts
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Build dependencies
Links
- https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs
- GitHub: norwoodj/helm-docs
- Brew formula source: Formula/h/helm-docs.rb
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