Commit 6da5bc5c authored by Matt Butcher's avatar Matt Butcher

docs(charts): fix charts docs to reflect current template practices

Closes #1241
parent 3437e5d6
......@@ -244,17 +244,18 @@ spec:
serviceAccount: deis-database
containers:
- name: deis-database
image: {{.imageRegistry}}/postgres:{{.dockerTag}}
imagePullPolicy: {{.pullPolicy}}
image: {{.Values.imageRegistry}}/postgres:{{.Values.dockerTag}}
imagePullPolicy: {{.Values.pullPolicy}}
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
env:
- name: DATABASE_STORAGE
value: {{default "minio" .storage}}
value: {{default "minio" .Values.storage}}
```
The above example, based loosely on [https://github.com/deis/charts](https://github.com/deis/charts), is a template for a Kubernetes replication controller.
It can use the following four template values:
It can use the following four template values (usually defined in a
`.values.yaml` file):
- `imageRegistry`: The source registry for the Docker image.
- `dockerTag`: The tag for the docker image.
......@@ -266,6 +267,10 @@ require or dictate parameters.
### Predefined Values
Values that are supplied via a `values.yaml` file (or via the `--set`
flag) are accessible from the `.Values` object in a template. But there
are other pre-defined pieces of data you can access in your templates.
The following values are pre-defined, are available to every template, and
cannot be overridden. As with all values, the names are _case
sensitive_.
......@@ -333,6 +338,39 @@ Note that only the last field was overridden.
`values.yaml`. But files specified on the command line can be named
anything.
Any of these values are then accessible inside of templates using the
`.Values` object:
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
name: deis-database
namespace: deis
labels:
heritage: deis
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
app: deis-database
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: deis-database
spec:
serviceAccount: deis-database
containers:
- name: deis-database
image: {{.Values.imageRegistry}}/postgres:{{.Values.dockerTag}}
imagePullPolicy: {{.Values.pullPolicy}}
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
env:
- name: DATABASE_STORAGE
value: {{default "minio" .Values.storage}}
```
### Scope, Dependencies, and Values
Values files can declare values for the top-level chart, as well as for
......@@ -355,16 +393,16 @@ apache:
```
Charts at a higher level have access to all of the variables defined
beneath. So the wordpress chart can access `.mysql.password`. But lower
level charts cannot access things in parent charts, so MySQL will not be
able to access the `title` property. Nor, for that matter, can it access
`.apache.port`.
beneath. So the wordpress chart can access the MySQL password as
`.Values.mysql.password`. But lower level charts cannot access things in
parent charts, so MySQL will not be able to access the `title` property. Nor,
for that matter, can it access `apache.port`.
Values are namespaced, but namespaces are pruned. So for the Wordpress
chart, it can access the MySQL password field as `.mysql.password`. But
chart, it can access the MySQL password field as `.Values.mysql.password`. But
for the MySQL chart, the scope of the values has been reduced and the
namespace prefix removed, so it will see the password field simply as
`.password`.
`.Values.password`.
#### Global Values
......
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