A migration with the goal of improving the infrastructure foundation is great. However, I was surprised to see that one of the motivations was to allow teams to use Helm charts rather than converting to Terraform. I haven’t seen in practice the consistent ability to actually use random Helm charts unmodified, so by encouraging its use you end up with teams forking and modifying the charts. And Helm is such a horrendous tool, you don’t really want to be maintaining your own bespoke Helm charts. IMO you’re actually better off rewriting in Terraform so at least your local version is maintainable.
Happy to hear counterexamples, though — maybe the “indent 4” insanity and multi-level string templating in Helm is gone nowadays?
Happy to hear counterexamples, though — maybe the “indent 4” insanity and multi-level string templating in Helm is gone nowadays?