Merge pull request #10 from CentML/gflarity/helm_chart_release_workflow

add a helm chart release workflow

.github/workflows/release_helm_chart.yaml

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+name: Release Helm Chart 
+
+on:
+  # Triggers the workflow when Chart.yaml is updated on the main branch
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - "charts/simple-sidecar/Chart.yaml"
+
+  # Allows you to manually trigger the workflow from GitHub's UI
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  release_helm_chart:
+    # Permissions required for the job. In this case, write access to the repository contents is needed.
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    # Specifies the type of runner that the job will run on. Here, it's the latest version of Ubuntu.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      # Configures Git with the GitHub actor's name and email to make commits and tags
+      - name: Configure Git
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "$GITHUB_ACTOR"
+          git config user.email "$GITHUB_ACTOR@users.noreply.github.com"
+
+      # Runs the chart-releaser action which turns your GitHub project into a self-hosted Helm
+      # chart repo. It does this – during every push to main – by checking each chart in your 
+      # project, and whenever there's a new chart version, creates a corresponding GitHub release
+      # named for the chart version, adds Helm chart artifacts to the release, and creates or
+      # updates an index.yaml file with metadata about those releases,
+      # which is then hosted on GitHub Pages
+      - name: Run chart-releaser
+        uses: helm/chart-releaser-action@v1.6.0
+        env:
+          # GitHub token used by the chart-releaser action
+          CR_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          # Customizes the name of the chart release
+          CR_RELEASE_NAME_TEMPLATE: "simple-sidecar-helm-chart-{{ .Version }}"