Helm Chart Chart.yaml

External

• https://helm.sh/docs/developing_charts/#the-chart-yaml-file

Internal

• Helm Concepts - Chart Layout

Overview

The chart's main metadata file. It is required to be present. Some of the required and optional elements are presented below, unknown elements will be silently ignored.

Example

apiVersion: v1
name: archaeopteryx
version: 0.1.0
appVersion: "1.0"
description: archaeopteryx Helm chart

Elements

apiVersion

Required element; the chart API version, always "v1".

name

Required element; the name of the chart.

version

Required element; SemVer 2 version. Non-SemVer names are explicitly disallowed by the system. For more details, see Chart Versioning.

appVersion

Optional element; the version of the application packaged in this chart. It does not need to be SemVer 2. For more details, see Chart Versioning.

description

Optional element; the single-sentence description of this project.