[linkmotif]

Great to hear.

> So its kind of like configuration management for your manifests then?

Basically, yep.

Which is why, for example, it makes it easy to deploy staging environments. Instead of writing your manifests are the final finished product, you set up your manifests to be interpolatable templates. Then you can deploy your application one way to your production environment, but then staging another way (different env vars, different replicas, different anything, but still the same app).

The whole package management/sharing of charts thing falls out as a result of this, but I've yet to find this useful. I don't pay attention to my chart's version number (it's always 1.0), but instead aggregate all the tags for each image I need throughout my manifest templates in the values file. Then when I upgrade my helm release to deploy those latest tags, helm provides me with a monotonically increasing integer for the resultant release. I can always point to this integer and ask, "what manifests were running at this release?"