Helm charts are great, and accomplishes the task, but things get really weird and complex if you're not careful. Oh man, the indentation and _helper.tpl nightmares. It's not obvious at all. And there's still a lot of repetition for each chart; writing a deployment or whatever is so verbose in K8s.
On the other hand, Ansible uses yaml and there it works great. I feel like Ansible uses yaml in a way that's easier to understand and the way it was meant to be written. With Ansible, you're writing configuration, not templates of configuration. I don't think a layer on top of Ansible like Helm is for K8s wouldn't make sense.
On the other hand, Ansible uses yaml and there it works great. I feel like Ansible uses yaml in a way that's easier to understand and the way it was meant to be written. With Ansible, you're writing configuration, not templates of configuration. I don't think a layer on top of Ansible like Helm is for K8s wouldn't make sense.