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  • I like helm and I think the main reason is that I have way less exposure to helm internals than you.

    Helm seems to be designed to follow the write-once-apply-everwhere principle. My experience is

    • find a promising k8s tool
    • get the chart
    • read the values file
    • apply (as a flux helm release object)

    I almost never need to untar and check the templates, helm for me is an easy to use high level abstraction.

    I guess that’s why they sell it as a package manager. The experience of writing the chart sounds dreadful, but using it is mostly trivial.