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# Publish helm chart to ECR

<Note>This article assumes that you have helm chart for your application.</Note>

Publishing a Helm package to an AWS ECR *(Elastic Container Registry)* private repository involves several steps:

1. [Package the Helm chart](/bring-your-helm-charts/first-steps/have-docker#package-a-helm-chart)
2. [Create an ECR private repository](#2-create-an-ecr-private-repository)
3. [Authenticate Helm to your ECR private registry](#3-authenticate-helm-to-your-ecr-private-registry)
4. [Push the Helm chart to ECR private registry](#4-push-the-helm-chart-to-ecr-private-registry)

### 1. Package as Helm chart

To package as helm chart please refer
[this article](/bring-your-helm-charts/first-steps/have-docker#package-a-helm-chart).

### 2. Create an ECR private repository

1. Login to [AWS console](https://console.aws.amazon.com).
2. Go to [ECR console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecr).
3. Switch to the preferred AWS region where you want to create the ECR private repository.
4. Create a private repository,
   1. In the left navigation pane, click on
      [**Private registry -> Repositories**](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecr/private-registry/repositories).
   2. Click on the **Create repository** button.
   3. Fill in repository name field.<br />Repository name must be same as Helm chart name. You can find your Helm chart
      name in **Chart.yaml -> name**.
   4. Click on **Create repository** button.

### 3. Authenticate Helm to your ECR private registry

<Note>
  Below steps require the **AWS CLI** to be installed and setup with required credentials. If it is not already installed,
  please refer to
  [this article](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html#getting-started-install-instructions)
  for installation instructions.

  Below steps require the **Helm CLI** to be installed. If it is not already installed, please refer to
  [this article](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/) for installation instructions.
</Note>

* Login to ECR private helm registry,
  ```shell theme={null}
  aws ecr get-login-password \
       --region <aws_region> | helm registry login \
       --username AWS \
       --password-stdin <aws_account_no>.dkr.ecr.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com
  ```
  Above command should output,
  ```shell theme={null}
  Login Succeeded
  ```

### 4. Push the Helm chart to ECR private registry

* Below command will push the packaged helm chart to your ECR private registry,
  ```shell theme={null}
  helm push <chart_name>-<chart_version>.tgz oci://<aws_acc_no>.dkr.ecr.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com/
  ```
* You can optionally verify the Helm push by navigating to your
  [**ECR -> Private registry -> Repositories**](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecr/private-registry/repositories) in
  your AWS console.