Helm join strings in a named template

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Key benefits of Helm is that it helps reduce the amount of configuration a user needs to provide to deploy applications to Kubernetes. With Helm, we can have a single chart that can deploy all the microservices.

Problem:

Create a unique service account for each microservice, so all microservices don’t share same service account. In our example, we will append the release name with the service account name.

  • Using join function
{{ (list .Values.serviceAccount.name (include "openjdk.fullname" .) | join "-") }}
  • Adding fail condition
{{- if .Values.serviceAccount.name -}} 
  {{ (list .Values.serviceAccount.name (include "openjdk.fullname" .) | join "-") }} 
{{- else -}} 
  {{- fail "Please enter a name for service account to create." }} 
{{- end -}}

Full example

{{- define "openjdk.serviceAccountName" -}}
{{- if .Values.serviceAccount.create -}} 
  {{- if .Values.serviceAccount.name -}} 
    {{ (list .Values.serviceAccount.name (include "openjdk.fullname" .) | join "-") }} 
  {{- else -}} 
    {{- fail "Please enter a name for service account to create." }} 
  {{- end -}}
{{- else -}} 
  {{- if .Values.serviceAccount.name -}} 
    {{ (list .Values.serviceAccount.name (include "openjdk.fullname" .) | join "-") }} 
  {{- else -}} 
    "default" 
  {{- end -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- end -}}

Another way to manipulate strings in helpers.tpl is using printf

{{- define "ocp-openjdk.hostname" -}}
{{- printf "%s-%s%s" .Release.Name .Release.Namespace (.Values.subdomain | default ".apps.amp01.nonprod" ) -}}
{{- end -}}

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