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But Helm barely adds any boilerplate over that 'single deployment or similar + RBAC'? Just a Chart.yaml (minimal of which is very small) and adding the option to parameterise or templatise the resources.

I don't know why you wouldn't, we don't say 'I don't know if .deb/.rpm/PKGINFO/etc. is worth it, most packages are just a binary'.

For Helm to add LoC you'd have to all but not use it, and even then it'd be about 3LoC. Setup is no harder, with N kubectl applies becoming 1 helm install.

I also started using terraform (directly instead of just triggering helm) - are you using kubernetes tf resources directly though, or the helm provider?