Helm: The Charts and the Curious
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Wednesday, 2021-10-13· at 11:00· Concourse Hall 150 ABC + Online·
summary
Covers concrete Helm practices: using helm create with custom starters and library charts to reduce boilerplate, templating with Go/Sprig, hooks and lookups for lifecycle control, and security with helm lint and helm test plus chart-testing for CI. Shows packaging via Helm package and GitHub Pages or ChartMuseum, demos a Tekton pipeline that packages, signs (PGP .prov) and publishes to Rekor via the helm sigstore plugin, and recommends chart-releaser and Artifact Hub for distribution.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Helm
- 2:51Building Helm charts
- 7:29Advanced chart development
- 18:35Packaging and signing
- 23:47Automated release demo
- 26:33Testing and publishing








