And finally, the experiment. it did not work as i hoped

README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ cat /tmp/realm.json
 
 Ref to use the "GitHub pages" feature to behave as a file server: https://github.com/technosophos/tscharts/tree/master
 
-Package and publish chart
+## Package and publish chart
 ```
 helm package ./chart
 mv helm-file-get-0.1.0.tgz docs
@@ -39,13 +39,31 @@ git commit -m "New chart index"
 git push
 ```
 
-One-timer to add GitHub page as a helm repo. This makes the `./docs` directory the repo url.
+## One-timer to add GitHub page as a helm repo.
+This makes the `./docs` directory the repo url.
 ```
 helm repo add codebeneath https://thecodebeneath.github.io/helm-files-get
 ```
 
-Use the repo to pull the remote chart
+## Use the repo to pull the remote chart
 ```
 helm repo update codebeneath
+```
+
+## Try a default install
+```
+cd install-from-repo
 helm install myapp codebeneath/helm-file-get
 ```
+
+> **this uses the chart packaged assets/realm.json file (the default)**
+
+## Try to override using a file from local filesystem
+```
+helm install myapp codebeneath/helm-file-get --values override-values.yaml --version 0.2.0
+```
+> **this uses the chart packaged assets/junk.json file (from the override-values file).**
+
+> **it does NOT take the local directory assets/junk.json file as I hoped.**
+
+> **bummer.**

install-from-repo/assets/junk.json

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "codebeneath-override": {
+        "id": "junk",
+        "value": "junk"
+    }
+}

install-from-repo/override-values.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+replicaCount: 1
+image:
+  repository: "hello-world"
+  tag: "1.0"
+  pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+service:
+  type: NodePort
+  port: 80
+
+secrets:
+  realm-secret:
+    stringData:
+      realm.json: '{{ .Files.Get "assets/junk.json" }}'
+
+extraVolumes: |-
+  - name: realm-vol
+    secret:
+      secretName: realm-secret
+      
+extraVolumeMounts: |-
+  - name: realm-vol
+    mountPath: /tmp/realm.json
+    subPath: realm.json
+