[akvadrako]

Something like kustomize was a better approach, where resources are templates semantically.

Though it's lacking in several ways, like good destroy functionality.

[moondev]

I like wrapping with kapp for this. However kustomize still skips hooks if you inflate a chart that uses them and there is value in discoverability of helm apps installed with clear versioning

      kustomize build | kapp deploy -a my-app -y -f -