Helm Templates in Files: How To Customize ConfigMaps Content Simplified in 10 Minutes
Helm Templates in Files, such as ConfigMaps Content or Secrets Content, are one of the most common requirements when you are in the process of creating a new helm chart. As you already know, Helm Chart is how we use Kubernetes to package our application resources and YAML in a single component that we can manage at once to ease the maintenance and operation process.
Helm Templates Overview
By default, the template process works with YAML files, allowing us to use some variables and some logic functions to customize and templatize our Kubernetes YAML resources to our needs.
So, in a nutshell, we can only have yaml files inside the templates folder of a YAML. But sometimes we would like to do the same process on ConfigMaps or Secrets or to be more concrete to the content of those ConfigMaps, for example, properties files and so on.
As you can see it is quite normal to have different files such as json configuration file, properties files, shell scripts as part of your helm chart, and most of the times you would like to give some dynamic approach…
