helm-validator

You can validate Helm charts by running the helm-validator against your chart directory to check structure, lint templates, render manifests, and validate YAML and CRDs. This generates a comprehensive validation report to enforce pre-deployment quality gates.

Helm chart linting and template rendering detect syntax and runtime issues by validating Chart.yaml, values.yaml, and templates. The process catches structural errors and configuration problems before they reach your Kubernetes cluster.

Yes, helm-validator is designed for CI/CD pipelines to enforce pre-deployment quality gates. It validates chart structure, lints templates, renders manifests, and checks security best practices like resource limits, securityContext, and probes in read-only default mode.

Yes, you need Helm installed to render templates. The validation process uses Helm for template rendering, yamllint for YAML syntax validation, and kubeconform for schema validation to detect issues comprehensively.

CRD documentation lookup works by detecting Custom Resource Definitions in your rendered manifests and checking their documentation to mitigate deployment risks. This helps prevent common deployment failures when working with custom Kubernetes resources.

The best way is to run chart validation with security checks that verify resource limits, securityContext, and probes. Helm-validator performs these checks in read-only default mode, ensuring your Kubernetes configurations follow security best practices before deployment.