Question

A platform engineer is packaging a web application with Helm. They want to store the raw Kubernetes manifest definitions with placeholders that get substituted from configurable inputs at install time. Inside a Helm chart directory, which location is designed to hold these parameterized manifest files?

Accepted Answer

The templates/ directory, which contains manifest files with Go templating directives

Answer

The values.yaml file, which stores the fully rendered Kubernetes manifests

Answer

The charts/ directory, which stores the parameterized deployment definitions

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The Chart.yaml file, which embeds the manifest templates as metadata