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If you're templatizing manifests, kubespray does this pretty well I think. At least for the basics, it's pretty helpful so far. But indeed, I'm looking into deploying more things with Helm if possible.

Most services I've been using so far offer official Helm charts. But I get your point, it can be cumbersome and if there isn't an official one, then they can be pretty undocumented / hard to work around.

I haven't used CDK, but the concept is definitely similar. I think Pulumi most likely has wider support, since it's based on Terraform and even if you don't have a provider available on Pulumi you can "port it" (although never tried it, not sure if it works well). I like how it stores the state for you and secrets as well, saves quite a bit of trouble.