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Helm Default values.yaml

The defaults half of a Helm values pair: nested maps, an empty map and an empty list, a list of env entries, and quoted booleans that must survive as strings. Pairs with the production overrides fixture for deep-merge testing.

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# Default values for the `orders` chart. Merged with an overrides file at install time, so this
# pair is the canonical fixture for deep-merge semantics: maps merge key by key, lists replace
# wholesale, and an explicit `null` deletes an inherited key.
replicaCount: 2

image:
  repository: registry.example.invalid/example-org/orders
  tag: ""
  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent

service:
  type: ClusterIP
  port: 80

resources:
  requests:
    cpu: 100m
    memory: 128Mi
  limits:
    cpu: 500m
    memory: 512Mi

autoscaling:
  enabled: false
  minReplicas: 2
  maxReplicas: 10
  targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 70

nodeSelector: {}
tolerations: []

env:
  - name: LOG_LEVEL
    value: info
  - name: FEATURE_CHECKOUT_V2
    value: "true"

cache:
  enabled: true
metrics:
  enabled: false

podAnnotations:
  example.invalid/scrape: "false"

Specifications

Role
defaults
Top Level Keys
11
Empty Map
1
Empty List
1
List Values
1

Testing contract

Reference control
Scenario
Load a Helm defaults file without coercing quoted values or collapsing empty collections
Expected result
nodeSelector stays an empty map, tolerations an empty list, and FEATURE_CHECKOUT_V2 stays the string "true" rather than a boolean

What is a .yaml file?

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data-serialization format using indentation, key-value pairs, and lists, and is a superset of JSON. It supports comments, anchors, and multiple documents per file, favoring readability for configuration. Its indentation sensitivity makes it error-prone to hand-edit.

How to use this file

Use an example YAML file to test config parsers, indentation and anchor handling, multi-document streams, and safe-loading to avoid arbitrary object construction.

How to use this file for testing

“Helm Default values.yaml” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Config testing, Config parsing, Editor testing. TOML, INI, YAML, .env, and dotfile configuration samples with nested sections and typed values — for testing config parsers, loaders, and environment tooling.

Documented properties for this file: defaults. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Pipeline and infrastructure fixtures are inert configuration: steps reference fictional images and scripts, and nothing here executes. Run your linter, schema validator, migrator, or policy engine against them, and expect the deprecated-syntax and intentionally invalid variants to be rejected.

Point your config loader at the file and assert it reads the documented sections and typed values, including any deliberately-tricky nesting or comments.

Code examples

import yaml  # pip install pyyaml

with open("helm-values.yaml") as f:
    data = yaml.safe_load(f)
print(data)

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