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i.e. from name: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Values.module5678.name }}-pod below

# deployment.yaml



apiVersion: apps/v1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

  labels:

    app: {{ template "project1234.name" . }}

    chart: {{ template "project1234.chart" . }}

    release: {{ .Release.Name }}

    heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}

  name: {{ template "project1234.module5678.fullname" . }}

spec:

  replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }}

  selector:

    matchLabels:

      app: {{ template "project1234.name" . }}

  template:

    metadata:

      labels:

        app: {{ template "project1234.name" . }}

    spec:

      containers:

      - image: "{{ .Values.image.name }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}"

        name: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Values.module5678.name }}-pod

        ports:

        - containerPort: 1234

      imagePullSecrets:

      - name: {{ .Values.image.pullSecret }}

I am expecting the pod name to be:

pod/project1234-module5678-pod

Instead, the resulting Pod name is:

pod/chartname-project1234-module5678-dc7db787-skqvv

...where (in my understanding):
chartname is from: helm install --name chartname -f values.yaml .
project1234 is from:

# Chart.yaml



apiVersion: v1

appVersion: "1.0"

description: project1234 Helm chart for Kubernetes

name: project1234

version: 0.1.0

module5678 is from:

# values.yaml



rbac:

  create: true



serviceAccounts:

  module5678:

    create: true

    name:



image:

  name: <image location>

  tag: 1.5

  pullSecret: <pull secret>



gitlab:

  secretName: <secret name>

  username: foo

  password: bar



module5678:

  enabled: true

  name: module5678

  ingress:

    enabled: true

  replicaCount: 1

  resources: {}

I've tried changing name: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Values.module5678.name }}-pod into a plain string value like "podname1234" and it isn't followed. I even tried removing the name setting entirely and the resulting pod name remains the same.

Pods created from a Deployment always have a generated name based on the Deployment's name (and also the name of the intermediate ReplicaSet, if you go off and look for it). You can't override it.

Given the YAML you've shown, I'd expect that this fragment:

apiVersion: apps/v1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

  name: {{ template "project1234.module5678.fullname" . }}

expands out to a Deployment name of chartname-project1234-module5678; the remaining bits are added in by the ReplicaSet and then the Pod itself.

If you do look up the Pod and kubectl describe pod chartname-project1234-module5678-dc7db787-skqvv you will probably see that it has a single container that has the expected name project1234-module5678-pod. Pretty much the only time you need to use this is if you need to kubectl logs (or, more rarely, kubectl exec) in a multi-container pod; if you are in this case, you'll appreciate having a shorter name, and since the container names are always scoped to the specific pod in which they appear, there's nothing wrong with using a short fixed name here

spec:

  containers:

  - name: container