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Common-2025 finally released

Alfred Göppel
Alfred Göppel
Community Development Lead

TrueCharts Releases common-2025 Helm Library with Major Improvements

The TrueCharts team is proud to announce the release of common-2025, the latest version of the shared Helm chart library powering all TrueCharts charts. This major update delivers powerful new features, improved integrations, and essential structural upgrades that enhance usability, maintainability, and compatibility across the board.

🚀 Key Highlights of common-2025

  • 🔐 Nginx Ingress Integration

    • Disabled by default for a cleaner baseline
    • Built-in support for:
      • Authentication
      • IP whitelisting
      • ThemePark styling

  • 🛠 GitOps CNPG Recovery Enhancements

    • No more need to bump revision numbers during CNPG cluster recovery
    • Using the revision number is now optional.

  • 🌐 Traefik Updates

    • Disabled by default for a cleaner baseline
    • Complete rework of Traefik middlewares, now defined per chart

  • 📦 Resource Management

    • Updated defaults for required pod resources

  • 🔑 Existing Pull Secret Support

    • Added support for using existing Kubernetes secrets for container registry authentication
    • Simplifies integration in environments with pre-configured imagePullSecrets

  • 🧩 Addon System Rework

    • Safe upgrade: prevents updates when some legacy addon layouts are present
    • More configuration options for addons, including:
      • Full access to the workload definition

  • 📁 Structural Cleanups

    • Removal of deprecated Portal (legacy from SCALE)
    • Major improvements to notes.txt
    • Moved MetalLB and Traefik service annotations to centralized integration logic

  • 📊 Autoscaling Enhancements

    • Refactored Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA): To comply to our coding standards and testing regime
    • Added support for Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA): Allows for automatically adjusts CPU and memory limits over time

  • 👤 Service Account Overrides

    • Added support to optionally override the service account name in the workload podSpec

  • 🌐 Topology Key Configuration

    • Users can now configure a default topologyKey for scheduling behavior

  • 📌 Pod Affinity Support

    • Added full support for pod affinity, enabling more advanced workload placement strategies
    • Default pod affinity to ensure pods sharing RWO PVCs are started on the same node

🙏 Thank You

This release marks another milestone in the growth of the TrueCharts ecosystem. A huge thank you to all contributors who help build, improve, and maintain all of our charts. Your work makes TrueCharts possible.

And of course, thank you to all users—your feedback, deployments, and support are what drive this project forward every day.

For more information or to get involved, visit: https://truecharts.org

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