Resource Naming

Base name

All resource names are derived from a fullname computed as follows:

Condition	fullname
fullnameOverride set	exactly fullnameOverride
nameOverride set, release contains it	just <release>
nameOverride set	<release>-<nameOverride>
No overrides, chart is standard	just <release>
No overrides, chart is e.g. archivebox	<release>-archivebox

Examples:

helm install myapp hosst/standard                         → myapp
helm install myapp hosst/standard --set nameOverride=api  → myapp-api
helm install myapp hosst/archivebox                       → myapp-archivebox
helm install feat-xyz hosst/standard --set nameOverride=backend → feat-xyz-backend
helm install backend hosst/standard --set nameOverride=backend   → backend  (deduplication)

Per-resource names

Resource	Pattern	Example (release myapp, key worker)
Deployment	<fullname>-<key>	myapp-worker
Service	<fullname>-<key>	myapp-worker
Ingress	<fullname>-<key>	myapp-worker
CronJob	<fullname>-cronjob-<key>	myapp-cronjob-worker
Job	<fullname>-job-<key>	myapp-job-worker

When the key is already contained in the fullname the suffix is dropped to avoid duplication — myapp-myapp becomes myapp.

Single-resource shorthands

The ingress:, service:, and deployment: shorthands inject into their respective maps using standard.name as the key — which resolves to nameOverride if set, the chart name otherwise (e.g. bookstack), and the release name only when using the generic standard chart directly. Because that name is always part of the fullname, the resource gets the clean fullname with no extra suffix:

chart: bookstack  →  name: bookstack  →  fullname: myapp-bookstack  →  resource name: myapp-bookstack
nameOverride: api  →  name: api       →  fullname: myapp-api        →  resource name: myapp-api
chart: standard   →  name: myapp     →  fullname: myapp             →  resource name: myapp

Per-resource overrides

Every named resource supports two override fields:

Field	Scope	Effect
nameOverride	key part only	<fullname>-<nameOverride> (or <fullname>-<prefix>-<nameOverride> for CronJobs/Jobs)
fullnameOverride	entire name	used verbatim

deployments:
  worker:
    nameOverride: background    # → myapp-background
  api:
    fullnameOverride: my-api    # → my-api