Testing Helm Charts — Back and Forth
summary
A practical recount of why and how a team started testing Helm charts, describing a progression from no tests to snapshot validation with Terratest and then to more granular testing. Covers tools and practices encountered (Helm test, Terratest, Conftest), a demo, baseline tests, and lessons learned for validating production charts.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:17Helm is boring
- 2:54Migration to Kubernetes
- 3:47Commands
- 4:30Universal Charts in Production
- 5:37Helm Test
- 8:41Terratest
- 11:53Tools
- 14:08Tests Baseline
- 15:12Demo Time
- 24:17Are these tests enough?
- 26:21Conftest
- 27:09Q&A
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