Update helm chart values for different environments

Question

I have helm charts created for a microservice that I have built and everything is working as expected. Now, I have created a new k8s namespace and I want to try to deploy the same helm charts as my old namespace. Although, I have just one value that I need it different while everything else remain the same.

Do I have to create another values.yaml for the new namespace and copy everything over and update the one field I want updated ? Or is there any other way ? I do not want to use the --set method of passing updates to the command line.

You could also use helm install -f more-values.yaml; that YAML file would override anything in the chart's values.yaml. — David Maze
@DavidMaze When you say override values.yaml, does that mean it overrides any tokens that matches or the entire file just gets overridden ? — daze-hash

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-27T08:38:10

David suggested the right way. You can use different values.yaml where you can specify the namespace you want to deploy the chart:

$ helm install -f another-namespace-values.yaml <my-release> .

It's also entirely possible to launch helm chart with multiple values. For more reading please check values section of helm docs.

Update helm chart values for different environments

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