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Helm Charts as Code (by Praqma)
carvel
Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. This repo contains information regarding the Carvel open-source community. (by carvel-dev)
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| helmsman | carvel | |
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| 7 | 10 | |
| 1,350 | 351 | |
| 1.6% | 4.9% | |
| 8.5 | 9.1 | |
| 6 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Go | HTML | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Helm-Compose – The Docker-compose like tool for K8s development
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.
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Which GitOps for very small teams?
I've been using https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman for quite a few years now. Very pleased with it.
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[2022] [Updated] Alternative to Helmfile
Have you looked at https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman ?
- Question on how to handle common infrastructure services;
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How do you deliver Kubernetes applications in 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.
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Terraform/helm and environment variables
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.
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How do you automate Helm charts installation?
Here's some issues where people asked the same question: https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/issues/18 https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/issues/240
carvel
Posts with mentions or reviews of carvel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.
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Alternatives to Helm?
You should take a look at Carvel maybe something in it could match with your needs.
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Which GitOps for very small teams?
There's a third option that's quickly rising in popularity, which is Carvel, works great for smaller teams, and allows progressive adoption since it can start as CLI for newer teams learning about gitops concepts.
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Which of the following 6 products from the show-floor at last week's KubeCon 2022 in Detroit did you find the most interesting?
Carvel (carvel.dev) — featured in opening keynotes.
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What are some useful Kubernetes tools you can share?
Huge fan of Carvel tools, it's a whole bunch of them that can help with a wide array of use cases, grab one or two of them for a given scenario, or adopt a bunch that string together to solve larger problems.
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Why helm doesn't use a general purpose programming language for defining resources?
+1 been using ytt and kapp, the Carvel stuff in its entirety is a much better experience than helm (it can keep helm to help migration, or deal with the fact everyone still distributes in helm).
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Running Tanzu unmanaged cluster on (very) low resources
Creating Carvel Community which :
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Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
https://carvel.dev (and especially the [KAPP](https://carvel.dev/kapp/) piece) is a set of excellent tools to level up on Kubernetes.
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Kubernetes Is Our Generation's Multics
Take a look at Kapp on https://carvel.dev/ for this, possibly.
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
Hopefully this post has helped you make install process smoother, smarter, and made you discover CARVEL tools.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helmsman and carvel you can also consider the following projects:
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
terraform-provider-flux - Terraform and OpenTofu provider for bootstrapping Flux
asdf - k14s asdf plugin
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.
kwt - Kubernetes Workstation Tools CLI
helm-mapkubeapis - This is a Helm plugin which map deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs
mgmt - Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
helmfile - Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD.
ytt.vim - syntax for ytt
website - 🌐 Source code for OpenGitOps website
kapp - kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label