helmsman
Helm Charts as Code (by Praqma)
helmfile
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD. (by helmfile)
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| 7 | 24 | |
| 1,350 | 3,164 | |
| 1.6% | 4.5% | |
| 8.5 | 9.6 | |
| 6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
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| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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
helmfile
Posts with mentions or reviews of helmfile.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
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Installing multiple helm charts in one go [Approach 2 - using helmfile]
sudo wget https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases/download/v0.159.0/helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo tar -xxf helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo rm helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo mv helmfile /usr/local/bin/
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Simplified Deployment: A Deep Dive into Containerization and Helm
Installation: https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases
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Helm-Compose – The Docker-compose like tool for K8s development
What are the benefits over using helmfile? https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/
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self-built apps: do you like using helm or kustomize to deliver them to kubernetes
Helm charts and Helmfile
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Download packages for different architectures in your Dockerfiles using dumb-downloader, instead of writing scripts or separate Dockerfiles
And now I can just run dudo -l "https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases/download/v{{ version }}/helmfile_{{ version }}_{{ os }}_{{ arch }}.tar.gz" -i /tmp/helmfile.tar.gz -p $HELMFILE_VERSION
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Declarative GitOps for...my ArgoCD itself?
I might be misunderstanding your question but we use https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile along with Argo, so essentially between eks and those I could rebuild our entire cluster in minutes.
- Docker helm
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Which GitOps for very small teams?
I am asking which do you choose, Flux or Helmfile. edit: and what criteria do you use to select.
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In a gitops world, what does your team do to reduce cycle time for devs?
do you publish your own helm chart for your internal services and use it in every environment? if so, you could try to use helmfile within the service's repo itself and store values in a helm/$env directory. then enhance your ci to deploy to dev after the merge/image build phase directly. to try and cut out what sounds like a "deployment/config repo" step you have in the middle that's making everything a pain.
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Helm makes it overly complex, or is it just me?
I've used helmfile before to declaratively manage multiple helm charts. It's a higher-level tool, and still uses helm under the hood.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helmsman and helmfile you can also consider the following projects:
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
vals - Helm-like configuration values loader with support for various sources
terraform-provider-flux - Terraform and OpenTofu provider for bootstrapping Flux
helmwave - New 🌊 wave for @helm
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.
kpt - Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
helm-mapkubeapis - This is a Helm plugin which map deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs
flux2 - Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.
website - 🌐 Source code for OpenGitOps website
zarf - DevSecOps for Air Gap & Limited-Connection Systems. https://zarf.dev/
helm-controller - The GitOps Toolkit Helm reconciler, for declarative Helming
library-charts - ⚠️ Deprecated : Helm library charts for the k8s@home Helm charts