Helm — Create Helm Chart
How to create your own Helm Chart
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5 min readMay 12, 2022
In my last Helm
article “Helm Operations”, I talked about some common helm
operations and showed you how to deploy an existing sample Helm
chart, this time let’s create our own Helm Chart
.
At one point, you will need to create your own customized Helm Chart
, because you may always find what you need in the public Helm
repository.
Helm Chart
Let’s recap the structure of a Helm Chart
. The structure of a common Helm Chart
looks like:
mychart/
Chart.yaml
LICENSE
README.md
values.yaml
charts/
crds/
templates/
...
A Chart
is a collection organized in file directories, where the directory name is the Chart name (without version information).
Chart.yaml
: The file contains the description of the chartLICENSE
: Chart license fileREADME.md
: Readme file with additional chart informationcharts
: Directories may contain other charts (sub-charts).templates/
:A directory is used to place template files. Whenhelm
is executed, it will render all the files in this directory through the template rendering enginevalues.yaml
: This file contains chart default…