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What Lives Inside a Chart Package

Templates plus default values bundled as one unit.

What a Chart Is

A chart is a Helm package: a bundle of Kubernetes templates plus default settings that together describe one deployable application. 📦

A Chart Is a Directory

On disk a chart is just a directory with a fixed layout. Helm reads that structure to know how to render and install it.

mychart/
  Chart.yaml
  values.yaml
  templates/

All lessons in this course

  1. What Lives Inside a Chart Package
  2. A Release Is an Installed Chart
  3. Revisions: Every Change Is Versioned
  4. One Chart, Many Releases
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