alt Hacker NewsHow do you handle cleanups and hooks? The best way to do helm, at least for me, seems to be about limiting its use to simple templating use cases; if you end up needing an if, you've probably done something terribly wrong.
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arkeros • yesterday at 7:16 PM
You can rely purely on kubectl with something like:
cat manifests.yaml | kubectl apply -f - --server-side --field-manager "$FIELD_MANAGER" --prune --applyset "$APPLYSET" --namespace "$NAMESPACE"
srcreigh • yesterday at 5:58 PM
Seems to be a case of the XY problem. What do you need cleanups and hooks for?
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That's my main gripe with Helm.
For the simple use case you're describing, Helm is not required. Plenty of other solutions around.
For use cases where it starts getting useful, we both agree that something has gone terribly wrong.
I still don't know why Helm exists. It's a solution that created lots of problems that didn't exist.