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by linkmotif 3110 days ago
I have yet to appreciate with the whole tarball/package thing.

My application is 5-6 deployments, a 3 statefulset and a cron job. I have it all in one chart that I keep unpackaged on in a directory. The workflow is (i) update the templates/values, (ii) ensure necessary containers live on GCR, `helm upgrade` my application. And that's it.

I've yet to find a need for breaking this single chart into multiple charts with dependencies. Maybe once it gets much, much bigger? I also don't like the idea of pulling in third party charts as dependencies, even if they're public from github. This last point is probably irrational and me-specific, but something about it is less appealing than just copy/pasting the manifests I want into my project. So much more direct.