Creating the Helm Chart

To deploy your application into a customer environment, the first step is to create the managed Helm chart in the Shepherd UI.

Custom Services

The Shepherd UI supports most functionality required to run a microservice.

Feature	Support Status
Custom Docker Image	✅
Private Docker Repositories	✅
Default CPU Allocation	✅
Default Memory Allocation	✅
Environment Variables	✅
Customer Provided Secrets	✅
Persistent Disks	✅
Inter-service Communication	✅
Ingress (Public Internet)	✅
Ingress (VPC)	✅
Ingress (BYO)	✅
Pod-Level Health Checks	Coming Soon
Pod-Level Readiness Checks	Coming Soon

Managed Services

Shepherd also provides support for common managed services that will run alongside your application as separate pods. While almost all 3rd party services can be supported as custom services, we have native support for several common dependencies.

Service	Support Status	Versions Supported
Redis	GA	7
PostgreSQL	GA	15, 16, 17
Clickhouse	Alpha	24
MySQL	Alpha	9