Mastodawn

🚢🤖 Ah, the thrilling saga of Helm charts: where #YAML meets your wildest #DevOps dreams, and somehow, the elusive art of "right-click, inspect" is the zenith of engineering wizardry. Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekends #debugging the labyrinthine mystery of #templating inconsistencies just to save a buck? 💸✨
https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html #HelmCharts #EngineeringWizardry #HackerNews #ngated

Building robust helm charts

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Hacker News Jan 21

Building Robust Helm Charts

https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html

#HackerNews #Building #Robust #Helm #Charts #DevOps #Kubernetes #HelmCharts #Tutorial

Building robust helm charts

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Benjamin Reed Jan 13

Our needs are interesting because as a company we offer both a cloud service *and* an on-prem version, both of which run in #k8s environments.

The Enterprise on-prem version can be installed either as pure #HelmCharts or through a higher-level "embedded cluster" from Replicated, for people that don't have the expertise to manage Kubernetes in-house.

We're looking for someone who has experience with self-hosted k8s, not just EKS and similar.

#DevOps #CICD #Kubernetes

Wayne Werner May 13, 2025

Hey #kubernetes krowd (?)

Say you're using #HelmCharts to spin things up, and you want to kick off some kubernetes jobs...

Do you usualy kick them off via Helm, or do you just do a `kubectl apply -f <somejob.yaml>`?

We're migrating to use #RedHat #OpenShift and we want to take the most advantage of k8s, but we also have a bunch of old batch jobs that are kicked off (distinct #Java and #Python apps)

We don't have any long-running services, but any advice would be 👍

Christoph Petrausch May 7, 2025

Is it only me, or is the reference/doc for Helm very bad? It's only a bunch of examples without any explizit references how certain features behave.

For example: https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/values_files/

The docs for value files never explizitly explain how values are merged. Neither the order nor the behaviour with more complex types like maps or slices of data.

#HelmCharts #helm #kubernetes

Values Files

Instructions on how to use the --values flag.

The DefendOps Diaries May 5, 2025

Default Helm charts in Kubernetes might be like leaving your front door unlocked – sensitive data and weak settings could be inviting trouble. Is your deployment really secure?

https://thedefendopsdiaries.com/enhancing-kubernetes-security-addressing-risks-in-helm-charts/

#kubernetessecurity
#helmcharts
#cybersecurity
#devsecops
#cloudsecurity

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Feilner IT Aug 8, 2024

We had an expert author (Thanks Martin Loschwitz!) download the source from #opencode and install the sovereign desktop for public administration that includes #opensource software from #univention, #nextcloud, #openproject, #openXchange, #xwiki, #matrix, #jitsi, #collabora. All you need is a #kubernetes cluster and knowledge about #helmcharts, but who does not have that at home? :-) 2/

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Solinvictus

Jul 24, 2024

darn, none of my managers are picked up 🥲

I tried solving the problem by adding more configuration on top which is not ideal #Renovate #HelmCharts

Solinvictus

Jul 24, 2024

trying to make #Renovate update my mirrored #HelmCharts , seems there are 2 Managers that could do that for me:
- helm-requirements
- helmv3

I’m confused

basically, what I’m trying to achieve is update the cloned helm chart within my git repo from upstream Chart registries. I will have to set “registryAliases” within my “renovate.json” file to make it aware where it should pull those from