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 Testaroo 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)Generated by generation/pipelines.py. Free for any use, no attribution required, license.
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