Updating the Guestbook Chart.yaml file

The scaffolded Chart.yaml file that helm create generated is catered around NGINX and not Guestbook as we would desire. Let’s make a couple of quick changes to improve the content:

1. First, let’s update the chart description to better describe the application our chart will deploy. Update the description field of Chart.yaml to the following (or feel free to provide your own):

   description: An application used for keeping a running record of guests

2. Next, let’s provide a more appropriate appVersion setting that better suits the version of Guestbook that our chart will deploy. The latest version of Guestbook is v5, so let’s use this as our appVersion:

   appVersion: v5

Our Chart.yaml file should now look like this (with the comments removed):

Figure 4.8 – The updated Chart.yaml file for Guestbook

Feel free to add any of the other Chart.yaml fields as well, but these changes, at...