[SomaticPirate]

Second this, helm is good for day one operations of k8s. If you just want to have a redis deployment running now I think it’s fine for that. But then managing helm charts becomes its own task. Kustomize seems to be a happy medium. Also Helm v3 seems to be doubling down on that “second api” level with addition of embedding Lua in their templates.

[techntoke]

Managing Kustomize configuration files is even worse in most regards, and you are likely to have a significantly larger amount of Kustomize files than Helm files, especially if you create a common chart and use dependencies correctly within Helm.