Core Concepts

As Helmless is built on top of Helm, it shares the same core concepts, but with some differences and new features specific to serverless deployments.

Helmless Charts

Helmless charts template your values into cloud-provider specific formats. They handle:

• Resource configuration
• Environment variables
• Secrets and volumes mapping
• Scaling rules

Values Files

Like Helm, Helmless uses values.yaml files to configure your deployments. These files define everything about your service:

name: my-service
image: us-docker.pkg.dev/cloudrun/container/hello:latest
env:
  API_KEY: secret

Deployment Actions

Helmless provides deployment tools that:

• Template your values
• Validate configurations
• Deploy to your cloud provider