terraform-provider-flux vs helm-controller

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terraform-provider-flux		helm-controller
	Project
3	Mentions	3
328	Stars	376
4.0%	Growth	2.4%
8.3	Activity	9.3
6 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

terraform-provider-flux

Posts with mentions or reviews of terraform-provider-flux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-09.

Using Terraform to both create kubernetes clusters (AKS) and deploy helm charts in the same project - good or bad?
3 projects | /r/Terraform | 9 Apr 2021

IMO, a better approach would be to provision your cluster using terraform, then do cluster operations using a GitOps tool, such as GitOps Toolkit (Flux v2) - https://toolkit.fluxcd.io/. You can point multiple clusters to the same repo and they are going to apply and reconcile the desired state for all or your clusters if needed. There’s also a Flux terraform provider - https://github.com/fluxcd/terraform-provider-flux, bootstrap flux then let it do its job.
Does anyone use terraform to manage Kubernetes objects as opposed to using plain yamls/helm charts/kustomize?
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 20 Mar 2021
How do you automate Helm charts installation?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 7 Feb 2021

You could try this: https://github.com/fluxcd/terraform-provider-flux

helm-controller

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-controller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.

Automatic update when newer image is available
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Mar 2023

If you're using helm I believe the helm controller could help you here
Question: Resources to learn K8s operator programming
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 28 Feb 2023
How do you automate Helm charts installation?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 7 Feb 2021

I agree with Helm Operator, though it is in maintenance mode and on the cusp of replacement with a newer tool. I'm working with FluxCD org now, on the next generation of Helm Operator, check out Helm Controller, under the new Flux2 which is rapidly approaching 100% feature parity (in the sense of approaching a limit, it is for almost all use cases 100% feature parity already) with the stable Flux v1 + Helm Operator.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing terraform-provider-flux and helm-controller you can also consider the following projects:

flux2 - Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.

helmsman - Helm Charts as Code

helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts

updatecli - A Declarative Dependency Management tool

terraform-aws-eks - Terraform module to create AWS Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) resources 🇺🇦

kustomize-controller - The GitOps Toolkit Kustomize reconciler

helm-operator - Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/helm-controller — The Flux Helm Operator, once upon a time a solution for declarative Helming.

k2tf - Kubernetes YAML to Terraform HCL converter

source-controller - The GitOps Toolkit source management component