Why “Helm” is being discussed
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most ops people just like templates bc coding wasn't their strong suit (at least before AI) and helm delivered the least friction way of using templates.
by dilyevsky · Oct 18, 2026
Way back in the day Kustomize didn’t support replacement or tempting for any arbitrary value, just some of them, and Helm didn’t have any of those restrictions. The instant we r…
by pirates · Oct 18, 2026
Helm lint will only find problems with whatever text is supplied to the Helm chart. It will not catch a large hunk of the class of errors being discussed here. There is plenty o…
by SOLAR_FIELDS · Oct 18, 2026
Everything you mentioned as a Helm feature is not in fact exclusive to Helm, and can be done either in code using the client libraries, or other deployment tools. For example I'…
by 80fj0348i · Oct 18, 2026
Kubernetes is a decent example of vendor-supplied and/or mainstream community effort, but that's beside the point that (a) Kubernetes is the exception, not the rule, and (b…
by solatic · Oct 18, 2026
> just use up-to-date dependencies Yeah, sure, I'll file that away with the NPM "tens of thousands of tiny dependencies is OK" thinking. Constant dependency upgrades is a nightm…
by solatic · Oct 18, 2026
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