Helm Academy · Lesson

Apply Changes with helm upgrade

Pushing new values or a new chart version.

Why upgrade Exists

Once a release is running, you rarely reinstall it. To change anything, you use helm upgrade to apply new settings to the same release. 🔄

An upgrade takes the release name first, then the chart it should use. Helm computes the diff and rolls it out for you.

helm upgrade my-app bitnami/nginx