Is there any way to print custom error message when kubernetes pre-install job fails?

Question

I have a helm chart and the helm chart is only installed when the pre-install hooks is succeeded. When the job fails, the error is

Error: failed pre-install: job failed: BackoffLimitExceeded

Is there any way i can print my custom message that pops up so that i do not have to go inside the job to find the cause of failed helm chart installation?

Answer 1

you can use {{- fail "failed pre-install: job failed: BackoffLimitExceeded" -}}

Answer 2

As mentioned in comments:

There is no way to print custom messages in HELM. A strategy that could be used is send the application logs to stdout and them verify them with kubectl logs command.