Comment by vibe_assassin

I am a fan of helm. The templating language can be pretty ugly sometimes, but your helm charts can be as simple as you want, and the basic functionality along with dependencies work fine. Some of my helm charts are basically just straight K8s manifests with minimal templating. I like helm because it lets me encapsulate a deployment in a single package, if I want to add some insane templating logic, that's on me.