[Feature request] Enable running without volume

[pbygrave-lucid]

Hi Team,

Would it be worth looking at a way to run the helm-dashboard without volume storage? I get that we can already disable persistent storage but in my org we run our K8s clusters without any kind of volumes at all, meaning right now I cannot install the dashboard despite it's potential advantages in our environment.

If possible I'd like to understand what data the volume is being used to store and whether we may be able to utilise an alternative storage model, perhaps something AWS-backed like S3 if not just using normal container storage?

[undera]

Hi
The storage is used by Helm for its cache, downloads, repository indexes. We just set env variables (https://github.com/komodorio/helm-dashboard/blob/main/charts/helm-dashboard/templates/deployment.yaml#L40) and Helm code picks it up.

IMO it can work without volume at all, just it won't remember anything between container restarts.

If you are Helm-proficient, you might contribute the change that would respect existing persistence.enabled flag to disable volume storage completely.