Exploring files that constitute a Chart

I prepared a Chart that defines the go-demo-3 application. We'll use it to get familiar with writing Charts. Even if we choose to use Helm only for third-party applications, familiarity with Chart files is a must since we might have to look at them to better understand the application we want to install.

The files are located in helm/go-demo-3 directory inside the repository. Let's take a look at what we have.

 1  ls -1 helm/go-demo-3

The output is as follows.

Chart.yaml
LICENSE
README.md
templates
values.yaml

A Chart is organized as a collection of files inside a directory. The directory name is the name of the Chart (without versioning information). So, a Chart that describes go-demo-3 is stored in ...

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