[tlynchpin]

Many projects don't even need cluster state, they could have just used a Makefile and some sed templating [0] (get off my lawn). Thankfully in these cases you can use helm offline to render the templates then just apply them but it's not great.

Thus I'm sour on Helm, I'm rooting for Kustomize. [1]

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/cluster...

[1] http://kustomize.io/

[gregwebs]

kustomize only covers some simple (but common) use cases. If you can use it, you should since its modifications are semantic. Generally I find it is good for handling known differences between a few environments like local and production. But it isn't capable of replacing helm.