Getting Started

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Read https://intentius.io/chant/lexicons/helm/getting-started/.
In a new directory, install the helm and k8s lexicons, run `npx chant init --lexicon helm`, and run `npx chant build`.
Run `helm lint` and `helm template` on the chart it wrote, and show me the output and the chart's files.
Never deploy to a real cloud account or shared environment (with `chant run`, `chant components` or a platform's own CLI), approve (a pull request review, `chant approve` or `chant run approve`), override a policy denial (`chant approve policy-override`), or merge; never cut or publish a release (`chant release cut --yes` or `chant release publish`), push or delete a `ci/*` tag (`chant ci tick` pushes them), or change the value of an existing flag; never touch `.chant/allowed_signers` or `chant/lifecycle`.

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Read https://intentius.io/chant/lexicons/helm/getting-started/.
In a new directory, install the helm and k8s lexicons, run `npx chant init --lexicon helm`, and run `npx chant build`.
Run `helm lint` and `helm template` on the chart it wrote, and show me the output and the chart's files.
Never deploy to a real cloud account or shared environment (with `chant run`, `chant components` or a platform's own CLI), approve (a pull request review, `chant approve` or `chant run approve`), override a policy denial (`chant approve policy-override`), or merge; never cut or publish a release (`chant release cut --yes` or `chant release publish`), push or delete a `ci/*` tag (`chant ci tick` pushes them), or change the value of an existing flag; never touch `.chant/allowed_signers` or `chant/lifecycle`.

Optional: hand this page to your coding agent

Read https://intentius.io/chant/lexicons/helm/getting-started/.
In a new directory, install the helm and k8s lexicons, run `npx chant init --lexicon helm`, and run `npx chant build`.
Run `helm lint` and `helm template` on the chart it wrote, and show me the output and the chart's files.
Never deploy to a real cloud account or shared environment (with `chant run`, `chant components` or a platform's own CLI), approve (a pull request review, `chant approve` or `chant run approve`), override a policy denial (`chant approve policy-override`), or merge; never cut or publish a release (`chant release cut --yes` or `chant release publish`), push or delete a `ci/*` tag (`chant ci tick` pushes them), or change the value of an existing flag; never touch `.chant/allowed_signers` or `chant/lifecycle`.

What is the Helm lexicon?

The Helm lexicon builds parameterized Helm charts from TypeScript. Where static manifest generators (like cdk8s’s Helm output) emit fixed YAML, it generates:

{{ .Values.x }} template directives
values.yaml with typed defaults
values.schema.json for validation
Conditional resources via {{- if }}
Standard _helpers.tpl
Helm hooks and tests

Install

npm install --save-dev @intentius/chant @intentius/chant-lexicon-helm @intentius/chant-lexicon-k8s

Your first chart

chant init --lexicon helm

This creates a scaffold with a Chart, Values, Deployment, and Service. Run chant build to produce a complete Helm chart directory.

Key imports

// Resources
import { Chart, Values, HelmNotes } from "@intentius/chant-lexicon-helm";

// Intrinsics (produce Go template expressions)
import { values, Release, include, printf, toYaml, If } from "@intentius/chant-lexicon-helm";

// K8s resources
import { Deployment, Service, Ingress } from "@intentius/chant-lexicon-k8s";

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