I'm writing a helm chart that uses the stable/redis chart as a subchart.
I need to override the storage class name used for both microservices within my chart, and within the redis chart.
I'm using helm 2.12.3
I would like to be able to specify redis.master.persistence.storageClass in terms of a template, like so
storage:
storageClasses:
name: azurefile
redis:
usePassword: false
master:
persistence:
storageClass: {{ $.Values.storage.storageClasses.name }}
Except, as I understand, templates aren't supported within values.yaml
As this is a public chart, I'm not able to modify it to depend on a global value as described here in the documentation
I considered using {{ $.Values.redis.master.persistence.storageClass }}
elsewhere in my chart rather than {{ $.Values.storage.storageClasses.name }}
, but this would:
In my values.yaml file I have:
storage:
storageClasses:
name: azurefile
redis:
master:
persistence:
storageClass: azurefile
I would like to specify a single value in values.yaml that can be overwritten at chart deploy time.
e.g. like this
helm install --set storage.storageClasses.name=foo mychart
rather than
helm install --set storage.storageClasses.name=foo --set redis.master.persistence.storageClass mychart
As you correctly mentioned, helm value files are plain yaml files which cannot contain any templates. For your use case, you'd need to use a templating system for your values files also which basically means you are also generating your value files on the go. I'd suggest taking a look at helmfile. This lets you share values file across multiple charts and application environments.