[NeckBeardPrince]

Just straight raw manifest files.

[pyth0]

How do you have anything dynamic? How do you handle any differences at all between your infrastructure and what the authors built it for.

[prescriptivist]

I get the feeling that most people commenting here have only surface level experience with deploying k8s applications. I don't care for helm myself but it's less bad than a lot of other approaches like hand rolling manifests with tools like envsubst and sed.

Kustomize also seems like hell when a deployment reaches a certain level of complexity.

[NeckBeardPrince]

Sorry, raw manifests and kustomize and a soupçon of regret.