Helm - Variable Access
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Helm - Variable Access

Access to variable in Helm is strange for me. Here's how I solved an error.
Helm - Variable Access

In the same template as before, I had originally:

  rules:
  {{- range .Values.ingress.hosts }}
    - host: {{ .host | quote }}
      http:
        paths:
          - pathType: ImplementationSpecific
            backend:
              service:
                name: {{ $fullName | quote }}
                port:
                  number: {{ .Values.services.port }} # Here
  {{- end }}

I kept getting an error that:

Error: template: ./templates/ingress.yaml:34:36: executing "./templates/ingress.yaml" at <.Values.services.port>: nil pointer evaluating interface {}.services

Not good. I figured that once you're in a loop {{- range ...}}, you cant really have access to the .Variables variable. So, I moved the port entry in the .Values.ingress.host on variables.yaml and changed the template:

  rules:
  {{- range .Values.ingress.hosts }}
    - host: {{ .host | quote }}
      http:
        paths:
          - pathType: ImplementationSpecific
            backend:
              service:
                name: {{ $fullName | quote }}
                port:
                  number: {{ .port }}
  {{- end }}

The corresponding section in values.yaml:

ingress:
  hosts:
    - host: "my.host.local.laurivan.com"
      port: 80

Great! The error went away.

HTH,