The Chart Best Practices Guide

We focus primarily on best practices for charts that may be publicly deployed. We know that many charts are for internal-use only, and authors of such charts may find that their internal interests override our suggestions here.

• General conventions for charts.
• Templates A closer look at best practices surrounding templates.
• Covers best practices for Chart dependencies.
• Pods and PodTemplates Discusses formatting the Pod and PodTemplate portions in Chart manifests.
• How to handle creating and using CRDs.