Could you explain why helm is garbage? I think it suits its purpose rather well without being too complex. You can essentially "plug-in" different types of resources rather easily. Especially in v3 now that you don't need to install Tiller and can avoid setting those cluster permission requirements.
Have you tried some Kubernetes api libraries? You can generate and configure resources with [python kubernetes-client](https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python) without much trouble. Personally I prefer editing them as JSON instead of python objects, but it isn't too bad.
Have you tried some Kubernetes api libraries? You can generate and configure resources with [python kubernetes-client](https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python) without much trouble. Personally I prefer editing them as JSON instead of python objects, but it isn't too bad.