diff --git a/xos-services/internetemulator/templates/_helpers.tpl b/xos-services/internetemulator/templates/_helpers.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc70a3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xos-services/internetemulator/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+{{/* vim: set filetype=mustache: */}}
+{{/*
+Copyright 2018-present Open Networking Foundation
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/}}
+{{/*
+Expand the name of the chart.
+*/}}
+{{- define "internetemulator.name" -}}
+{{- default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Create a default fully qualified app name.
+We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this (by the DNS naming spec).
+If release name contains chart name it will be used as a full name.
+*/}}
+{{- define "internetemulator.fullname" -}}
+{{- if .Values.fullnameOverride -}}
+{{- .Values.fullnameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- else -}}
+{{- $name := default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride -}}
+{{- if contains $name .Release.Name -}}
+{{- .Release.Name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- else -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name $name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Create chart name and version as used by the chart label.
+*/}}
+{{- define "internetemulator.chart" -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Chart.Name .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" -}}
+{{- end -}}
+
+{{- define "internetemulator.serviceConfig" -}}
+name: internetemulator
+accessor:
+  username: {{ .Values.xosAdminUser | quote }}
+  password: {{ .Values.xosAdminPassword | quote }}
+  endpoint: xos-core:50051
+required_models:
+  - InternetEmulatorService
+  - InternetEmulatorServiceInstance
+  - ServiceDependency
+dependency_graph: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/internetemulator/model-deps"
+steps_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/internetemulator/steps"
+sys_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/internetemulator/sys"
+model_policies_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/internetemulator/model_policies"
+models_dir: "/opt/xos/synchronizers/internetemulator/models"
+logging:
+  version: 1
+  handlers:
+    console:
+      class: logging.StreamHandler
+    file:
+      class: logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler
+      filename: /var/log/xos.log
+      maxBytes: 10485760
+      backupCount: 5
+  loggers:
+    'multistructlog':
+      handlers:
+          - console
+          - file
+      level: DEBUG
+{{- end -}}