[cortesoft]

Isn't the last point wrong? You can query the kubernetes environment in your templates to customize the output based on cluster specific things

[BossingAround]

The point isn't that you can never query the API, but that you can't really use helm chart as a controller (and, e.g. restart a pod under a certain condition, which is trivial for an operator).

[cortesoft]

Oh... why wouldn't you just write an operator then? Seems like a different requirement.