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Is it possible to disable chart located in charts folder in kubernetes?

I have a subchart in charts/ directory. I would like to disable it for some deployments.

Is it possible somehow? Currently i see the only way to add condition to all templates like below:

deployment.yaml

{{- if .Values.isDev }}
deployment code
{{- end }}

service.yaml

{{- if .Values.isDev }}
service code
{{- end }}
Solution

  • As a general rule of thumb I always have

    {{- if .Values.enabled }}
...
{{- end }}

    in every file in every subchart. Depending on situation the default value will be either true for regular components or false for dev related, or simply false for everything if I want to enable these in completely selective manner. A typical values for deployment for this approach looks like ie.:

    api:
  enabled: true
  database:
    host: mysql-dev

mysql:
  enabled: false

mysql-dev:
  enabled: true