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Inspecting Defaults with helm show values

Reading every knob a chart exposes.

Charts Have Knobs

Every Helm chart ships with default settings you can tune. The list of those knobs lives in the chart's values.yaml. 🎛️

See Before You Set

Before changing anything, you want to read what a chart exposes. The helm show values command prints that default file for you.

helm show values bitnami/nginx

All lessons in this course

  1. Inspecting Defaults with helm show values
  2. Override on the CLI with --set
  3. Supplying a Custom values File with -f
  4. How --set and -f Are Merged
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