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I have the opposite impression of Helm. I'm seeing vendors and other companies cranking out and sharing Charts at a rate I've never seen before.

There are some review issues in the main upstream Helm Chart repo, but that's due to volume (which is now higher than ever).

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While true, I also read about Helm v3 (that's said to be something different) and that maybe Helm is not the way to go but CRDs and Operators are... Well, at the very least, my point was - it's all confusing.

Helm is fun for demoing complex things the first time, but in production use, it’s a mixed bag. Lots of great alternatives that feel more ‘clean’ to me.

What are the cleaner alternatives?

Cloud 66 Skycap is a good alternative without most of the issues of Helm

This seems like a full-fat Build and Release management hosted solution (good job by the way, this looks great and I'll try it out).

I was more specifically asking Jeff which similar tools are cleaner, and why? Are there any helm drop-in replacements that anyone would recommend? Or is it really a shift to other ways of deploying, like these hosted solutions, or is everyone building their own k8s operators now...? Or something else?

Fair points and questions. I think most of the past couple of years was spent on making Kubernetes operation friendly. Now everyone has a managed k8s service so there are many solutions coming up to deal with their issues in “Day 2” like deployments or secret management

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