helmsman vs aws-secret-operator

helmsman

Helm Charts as Code (by Praqma)

aws-secret-operator

A Kubernetes operator that automatically creates and updates Kubernetes secrets according to what are stored in AWS Secrets Manager. (by mumoshu)

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helmsman		aws-secret-operator
	Project
7	Mentions	2
1,350	Stars	320
1.6%	Growth	-
8.5	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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helmsman

Posts with mentions or reviews of helmsman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-28.

Helm-Compose – The Docker-compose like tool for K8s development
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2023

We've been using Helmsman (https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman) for the same use case. It supports some other creature comforts (automatic fetching of parameters from AWS SSM, chart ordering, etc.) and seems a bit more mature.
Which GitOps for very small teams?
7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 11 Feb 2023

I've been using https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman for quite a few years now. Very pleased with it.
[2022] [Updated] Alternative to Helmfile
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 8 Dec 2022

Have you looked at https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman ?
Question on how to handle common infrastructure services;
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Aug 2022
How do you deliver Kubernetes applications in 2022?
2 projects | /r/devops | 13 Feb 2022

Kustomize manifests. Each microservice in its own folder. We have around 10 microservices, so it works for us. Db/metrics/monitoring/operators go into a Helmsman file.
Terraform/helm and environment variables
3 projects | /r/devops | 24 Mar 2021

I'm using Helmsman. It's a wrapper around Helm that allows you to inject environmental variables, amongst other things. It allows me to easily inject environmental variables from my Gitlab CI/CD into my Helm release.
How do you automate Helm charts installation?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 7 Feb 2021

Here's some issues where people asked the same question: https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/issues/18 https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/issues/240

aws-secret-operator

Posts with mentions or reviews of aws-secret-operator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-24.

ArgoCD and Hardcoded configuration
1 project | /r/devops | 19 Mar 2022
Terraform/helm and environment variables
3 projects | /r/devops | 24 Mar 2021

i haven't done this personally, but it sounds like you might want something like this: https://github.com/mumoshu/aws-secret-operator

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helmsman and aws-secret-operator you can also consider the following projects:

helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts

terraform-provider-flux - Terraform and OpenTofu provider for bootstrapping Flux

kube-linter - KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

helm-mapkubeapis - This is a Helm plugin which map deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs

helmfile - Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD.

website - 🌐 Source code for OpenGitOps website

helm-controller - The GitOps Toolkit Helm reconciler, for declarative Helming

k9s - 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

data-center-helm-charts - Helm charts for Atlassian's Data Center products

sveltos-agent - Classify cluster and report back to management cluster. Evaluates cluster health based on custom health checks. Watches for events and reports those to management cluster.

dex-k8s-authenticator - A Kubernetes Dex Client Authenticator