Kanvas Snapshot on Layer5 Documentation

Visualize Pull Requests with Kanvas Snapshot

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Kanvas Snapshot posts a picture of your infrastructure as a comment on each GitHub pull request. Reviewers see which components a Kubernetes manifest, Docker Compose file, or Helm chart defines, and how they connect, before they read the YAML. The comment updates on every push to the pull request.

The snapshot runs in a GitHub Actions workflow on GitHub-hosted runners. It never touches your cluster. For how a snapshot is built and what it can and cannot do, see Kanvas Snapshot.

Snapshot a Helm Chart

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The Kanvas Snapshot Helm plugin renders a Helm chart as a Kanvas design image from your terminal. Use it to see what a chart deploys before you install it, or to put a picture of a chart in a review, a ticket, or a README. It needs no repository, no cluster, and no Layer5 Cloud account.

You give the plugin the URL of a packaged chart. The plugin imports the chart as a design, starts a render, and then prints the image URL or emails you when the image is ready.