Creating your own charts

A chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources. A single chart might be used to deploy something simple, such as a memcached pod, or something complex, such as a full web app stack with HTTP servers, databases, caches, and so on.

Charts are created as files laid out in a particular directory tree. Then they can be packaged into versioned archives to be deployed. The key file is Chart.yaml.

The Chart.yaml file

The Chart.yaml file is required for a chart. It requires a name and version fields:

• Name: The name of the chart (same as the directory name)
• Version: A SemVer 2 version

It may also contain various optional fields:

• description: A single sentence description of this project keywords:

A list of keywords about this project:

• home: The URL of this project's home page
• sources: A list of URLs to source code for this project

• Maintainers:
  • name: The maintainer's name (required for each maintainer)
  • email: The maintainer's e-mail...