That's my main gripe with Helm.

For the simple use case you're describing, Helm is not required. Plenty of other solutions around.

For use cases where it starts getting useful, we both agree that something has gone terribly wrong.

I still don't know why Helm exists. It's a solution that created lots of problems that didn't exist.

My personal theory is that Helm may be ok for distributing a pre-packaged solution to other people. Then people mistook it for a tool that should be used in-house to deploy a company’s own systems, where it makes much less sense.

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a456463 3 days ago | parent [-]

It makes absolute sense. You can use no variables and still deploy helm chart. It is a directory of plain old yaml objects. And add customization when you need as you evolve. Good luck doing that with kustomize.

	▲	antonvs 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> And add customization when you need as you evolve. Using one of the most horrible templating languages since ASP. Helm is what happens when a devops team decides to yolo into software development. What's the issue with kustomize? It works well for us.