[osigurdson]

I generally meant, if you didn't have something like helm you would use regex. In any case, please elucidate, what tool do you like best?

[grncdr]

Not the poster you're replying to, but when it comes to deploying your own applications: generating Kubernetes manifests with whatever language you're already using and feeding JSON to `kubectl apply -f -` can accomplish the same outcome with less effort.

Helm is still useful for consuming 3rd party charts, but IMO it's status as the "default" is more due to inertia more than good design.

[osigurdson]

In my own experience I started off doing this because I wasn't ready to learn helm. However, after using helm once I didn't see the reason to do it in my own code any more.

[osigurdson]

I get the sense for the responses (and downvoting) that I will eventually learn to dislike helm!