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Guides creation and management of Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments, including structure, values.yaml, commands, dependencies, and repositories.
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Understanding and creating Helm charts for Kubernetes applications.
Creates, tests, validates, and packages Helm charts for Kubernetes using helm create, lint, template, package commands on Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates, and dependencies.
Generates production-ready Helm 3 charts for Kubernetes apps with Chart.yaml, values.yaml, Go templates, helpers, health probes, security contexts, and multi-environment values overrides.
Guides creation, organization, and management of Helm charts for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications. Useful for scaffolding charts, templating manifests, multi-environment deployments, and repositories.
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Understanding and creating Helm charts for Kubernetes applications.
mychart/
├── Chart.yaml # Chart metadata
├── values.yaml # Default values
├── charts/ # Chart dependencies
├── templates/ # Template files
│ ├── NOTES.txt # Usage notes
│ ├── deployment.yaml
│ ├── service.yaml
│ ├── _helpers.tpl # Template helpers
│ └── tests/ # Test files
└── .helmignore # Files to ignore
apiVersion: v2
name: my-app
user-invocable: false
description: A Helm chart for my application
type: application
version: 1.0.0
appVersion: "1.0.0"
keywords:
- web
- api
maintainers:
- name: Your Name
email: you@example.com
dependencies:
- name: postgresql
version: "12.1.0"
repository: "https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami"
condition: postgresql.enabled
replicaCount: 3
image:
repository: myapp
pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
tag: "1.0.0"
service:
type: ClusterIP
port: 80
ingress:
enabled: false
className: "nginx"
hosts:
- host: myapp.local
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
resources:
limits:
cpu: 500m
memory: 512Mi
requests:
cpu: 250m
memory: 256Mi
autoscaling:
enabled: false
minReplicas: 2
maxReplicas: 10
targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
helm create mychart
# Install from directory
helm install myrelease ./mychart
# Install with custom values
helm install myrelease ./mychart -f custom-values.yaml
# Install with value overrides
helm install myrelease ./mychart --set image.tag=2.0.0
helm upgrade myrelease ./mychart
# Upgrade or install
helm upgrade --install myrelease ./mychart
# Lint chart
helm lint ./mychart
# Dry run
helm install myrelease ./mychart --dry-run --debug
# Template rendering
helm template myrelease ./mychart
# List releases
helm list
# Get release status
helm status myrelease
# Get release values
helm get values myrelease
# Rollback
helm rollback myrelease 1
# Uninstall
helm uninstall myrelease
dependencies:
- name: redis
version: "17.0.0"
repository: "https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami"
condition: redis.enabled
tags:
- cache
helm dependency update ./mychart
helm dependency build ./mychart
helm dependency list ./mychart
# Add repository
helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
# Update repositories
helm repo update
# Search charts
helm search repo nginx
# Search hub
helm search hub wordpress
Provide sensible defaults in values.yaml:
# Good defaults
resources:
limits:
cpu: 100m
memory: 128Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 128Mi
# Allow customization
config: {}
env: {}
Include NOTES.txt for post-installation instructions:
Thank you for installing {{ .Chart.Name }}.
Your release is named {{ .Release.Name }}.
To learn more about the release, try:
$ helm status {{ .Release.Name }}
$ helm get all {{ .Release.Name }}