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Re:Kubernetes at GitHub by lobster_johnson on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:06PM (#15030203)
We wrote an internal tool that wraps Helm and GPG. But we're really using Helm as a glorified templating system; since we deploy from git, Helm's release management is useless to us, and is even somewhat in the way. We might decide to drop Helm at some point, I think.
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Re:Kubernetes at GitHub by xur17 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:08PM (#15030221)
We went down a similar path and ended up using helm-template [0] to render our helm charts without tiller.

We also use an internal tool that:

- maps applications to namespaces within clusters for different environments (since we have 1 cluster per environment)

- does some magic around secrets to make them easier to interface with

[0] https://github.com/technosophos/helm-template

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Re:Kubernetes at GitHub by Snappy on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:41PM (#15030554)
That's a good point. We (GitLab) use it mostly as a templating system as well. It's a step up from piping `sed` output to `kubectl`. But we have our own tools for managing redeploys and rollbacks.
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