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Error: mapping values are not allowed in this context

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Question 13 Apr 2023

Problem

User tries to run helm command to install chart and gets the following error

Error: YAML parse error on core-services/templates/mysql/ingress.yaml: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 13: mapping values are not allowed in this context

Solution

Usually this type of errors occurs due to YAML indentation problems and variables that cannot be used in the place they were used

Example:

To this

Attachment: commands.txt

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