Helm Academy · Lesson

Overriding Library Defaults Locally

Customizing shared templates per consumer.

Shared, But Not Rigid

A good library sets sensible defaults yet lets each consumer adjust them. The main lever is the values the partial reads at render time.

Because partials read .Values, your chart customizes shared output simply by setting those keys in its own values.yaml.

# your values.yaml
image:
  repository: nginx
  tag: "1.27"