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helm/charts
⚠️(OBSOLETE) Curated applications for Kubernetes
The original centralized Helm chart registry for Kubernetes — stable and incubator collections that shipped with Helm v2 as the default repo. Officially dead since November 2020, archived since February 2022. The replacement is Artifact Hub, where individual projects now maintain their own chart repos.
- Historically significant reference: hundreds of real-world charts covering stateful sets, RBAC, PodDisruptionBudgets, ingress, and sidecar patterns — useful as examples of how charts were structured when the ecosystem matured
- The incubator/common chart is an early attempt at a shared helper library (labels, fullname, metadata helpers) that directly influenced the current Bitnami common chart pattern
- CI and governance process (OWNERS files, trusted collaborators, stale-bot config) is well-documented and was the template for how many Kubernetes-adjacent projects structured contribution workflows
- Abandoned. Last commit February 2022, no new charts accepted since November 2019. Any chart you pull from here is targeting Kubernetes API versions that are removed in current clusters (e.g., extensions/v1beta1 Ingress, apps/v1beta1 Deployments)
- Images pinned to old tags or gcr.io addresses that may no longer resolve — deploying these charts as-is will silently pull wrong or missing images
- The stable/incubator split was a design mistake the community had to undo: too much friction for chart owners, too slow a review process, which is exactly why the ecosystem moved to distributed repos on Artifact Hub
- No path to adoption — you cannot contribute fixes, the maintainers are gone, and the chart registry endpoints are marked obsolete. Forking 300+ charts to maintain them yourself is not a realistic option