One of the most annoying (and frankly stupid) design decisions of Helm is discarding the world’s best source management utility and replacing it with tarballs. This is the source of much confusion and extra work when people realize they still need a way to track all their customizations and forks to inadequate templates. Had the Helm project had the foresight to keep all “Charts” as repos this would all go away. We could just fork a “chart” and make our changes and ensure upstream changes are made over time. This is a tried and true process used by all applications development for over a decade.
A K8SAPP undoes what Helm has broken by flattening Helm charts into their default Kubernetes resource YAML files and putting them into Git repos for proper management.
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