Chart Structure

Part of the Helm course

You have installed someone else's chart and watched Helm turn it into running Pods. That still leaves an obvious question: what is actually inside one of those things? A chart is not a binary and not a magic format, it is a plain folder on disk with a handful of files in fixed places, and Helm's whole job is reading that folder and turning it into Kubernetes manifests.

Nobody writes a chart's folder layout from memory. Helm ships a generator that produces a complete, working starter chart so you begin from something that already installs, and then you change what you need ...