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.
# 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)
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