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> Helm charts are declarative way of deploying app(s) and their accompanying resources.

How do you make helm chart deployment declarative? `helm install` is not declarative (in my understanding `kubectl apply` is declarative and `kubectl create` is not. Let me know if my understanding of declarative is wrong). Thanks.

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I think you’re confusing “declarative” with “idempotent”! The helm equivalent to “kubectl apply” is “helm upgrade —-install”.

Yes. Thank you.

`helm template | kubectl apply` ?

This is one way of doing declarative using helm, but this doesn't guarntee resource creation order. `helm install` creates resources in order while `kubectl apply` creates in order of alphabetically filename. This may lead to some unexpected issues.

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