Helm Chart Patterns
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Public Helm Charts repo hosts 130 charts, 2,000 merged PRs, ~100 contributors and ~10,000 weekly visitors, backed by CI that lints, installs and verifies pods run. Recommended patterns: use helm create and starters, namespace helper templates, allow supplying an existing PVC, expose ingress and annotation hooks, and use conditional dependencies for optional services. Practical tricks shown include using a checksum annotation to force deployment rollouts when a ConfigMap changes and adding helm tests (currently <10% of charts) and post-install hooks for one‑time tasks.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:47Helm Chart repo
- 8:54Chart yamo
- 14:45Helm Create
- 15:35Starters
- 16:18Config Maps
- 17:25Helm Hooks
- 18:51Persistent Volumes
- 19:35Web Apps
- 20:49Home Testing
- 22:35Custom Config
- 23:33Name Spacing
- 24:30Conditional dependencies
- 25:27Trap doors
- 26:36Conclusion
