This chart owns the pixelfed web and worker topology, its MySQL and Valkey services, persistent claims, probes, and optional Traefik route. It expects existing Kubernetes Secrets named by runtimeSecret, mysql.authSecret, valkey.authSecret, and (when bucket bootstrap is enabled) s3BucketJob.secretName. Never put their values in a public values file.

For this homelab, cluster-specific values select the existing PVC names, storage classes, domain and Secret names. A fresh installation may choose different storage; migrating a live installation must preserve its PVC UIDs and database contents.

helm repo add brunner.ninja https://brunner.ninja/charts
helm repo update brunner.ninja
helm upgrade --install pixelfed brunner.ninja/pixelfed --namespace pixelfed --create-namespace --wait --timeout 20m

The chart Git tag follows the upstream Pixelfed release (currently v0.15.1). Chart-only commits append their Git-describe count and hash.