For a more automated approach, the helm-dump plugin can help extract existing resources from a cluster and package them back into a new Helm chart. Best Practices for Chart Management
If you have a release running but lost the original chart files, you can use the following commands to pull the data back to your local machine: helm download chart from cluster
Use helm get manifest to retrieve the YAML files as they were applied to the cluster. Note that these are "rendered" (placeholders replaced with actual values). For a more automated approach, the helm-dump plugin
Use helm get all to view all metadata, templates, and values associated with the release. Use helm get all to view all metadata,
You can use a combination of kubectl and base64 decoding to extract the compressed chart data directly from the secret's data field.
Helm 3 stores release data in secrets named sh.helm.release.v1. .v .