[FridgeSeal]

We've found Kustomize, or just straight up writing the deployments ourselves the best approach.

The actual spec for a Deployment/Daemon Set/Stateful Set/CRD is usually super straightforward once you get the Kubernetes terminology, and most of the issues I've had with Helm have boiled down to "oh they haven't parametised the one config I need to change"

[jjeaff]

I always have some configs that helm hasn't parameterized. But that's not a problem because I always fetch my charts from helm hub into my repo. So I just add any parameters I need.