Is it possible to create a helm template for a template file inside templates/ folder? My use case is following: there are several kubernetes deployment files which differs only in deployment name and docker image that is pulled from a repo(e.g. deployment for service1, service2 etc). I want to create one chart to deploy all that services. Currently there are a lot of copy-paste in my deployment templates. I want to have some kind of a template for that templates. Also all that deployment templates will have different Values.yaml on different environments(e.g. service1 and service2 will have values-prod.yaml on prod env and values-stage.yaml on staging env)
If not possible, what are the alternative solutions? Thanks
For those who are interseted in a solution:
as proposed by David Maze in the comments to my question I should use somehing similar to {{ range .Values.resourceNames }} in the template file(e.g. deployment.yaml) and divide those resources with --- on the beginning of a loop(kubernetes allows to have several resources defined in a single file separated by ---), where .Values.resourceNames is just an example. So having that deployment.yaml template could look like following:
{{- range .Values.resourceNames }}
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: {{ .name }}-deployment
labels:
app: {{ .name }}
spec:
replicas: {{ .replicaCount }}
selector:
...
{{- end }}
where values.yaml file looks like folloiwng:
resourceNames:
- name: service1
replicaCount: 2
- name: service2
replicaCount: 1