Production Helm Chart

The official Helm tutorial gets you to "it deploys." This skill gets you to "it survives." Designed for in-house service charts (one chart per service, internal repo), not public charts.

When to use

• Packaging your own service for Kubernetes deployment.
• Migrating raw kubectl apply manifests to Helm.
• Setting probes, autoscaling, or NetworkPolicies for the first time.
• Refactoring a chart that's grown unwieldy.

When NOT to use

• Pure stateless functions — Knative or KServe may be simpler.
• You're publishing a chart to Bitnami/Artifact Hub — different bar (much higher).
• You only have one service — raw manifests + Kustomize might be lighter.

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