Can I have multiple values.yaml files for Helm

Question

Can I have multiple values.yaml files in a Helm chart?

Something like mychart/templates/internalValues.yaml, mychart/templates/customSett

Answer 1

Helm by default will only use the values.yaml file in the root directory of your chart.

You can ask it to load additional values files when you install. For instance, if you have any settings that point to different databases in different environments:

helm install . -f values.production.yaml

You could also get a similar effect by bundling additional settings as a file, and asking Helm to read the bundled file. Helm provides an undocumented fromYaml template function which can parse the file, so in principle you can do something like

{{- $v := $.Files.Get "more-values.yaml" | fromYaml }}
foo: {{ $v.bar }}