[evancordell]

This is interesting, I have the opposite opinion. I dislike helm for public distribution, because everyone wants _their_ thing templated, so you end up making every field of your chart templated and it becomes a mess to maintain.

Internal applications don't have this problem, so you can easily keep your chart interface simple and scoped to the different ways you need to deploy your own stack.

With Kustomize, you just publish the base manifests and users can override whatever they want. Not that Kustomize doesn't have its own set of problems.

[moondev]

Kustomize also supports helm charts as a "resource" which makes it handy to do last mile modifications of values and 'non value exposed" items without touching or forking the upstream chart.

[preisschild]

There are good common libraries which expose every property by default, so you dont need to make everything template-able yourself

https://github.com/bjw-s/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/librar...

[mieubrisse]

How would you feel if you could use Starlark (if you're familiar with it) to parameterize a la Helm, and then can add more Starlark commande later to update previously-defined infra a la Kustomize?

Full disclosure: our startup is trying to build a tool where you don't have to pick, so trying to test the hypothesis