[nunez]

Despite its pitfalls, I've found that Helm is still the best way to distribute an app that's destined for Kubernetes. It's easy to use and understand and provides just enough for me to ship an app along with its dependencies.

I use kapp from Project Carvel and the "helm template" subcommand to work around Helm's inability to control desired state. I've found that kapp does a pretty good job of converging whatever resources Helm installed.

[s0l1dsnak3123]

+1 for Carvel suite. To me it hits the sweet spot by allowing you to compose your own pipelines. It's not too alien for other k8s folks, and UNIXy enough that you can cut out the stuff you don't care about.