Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

Re:Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? by freedomben on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:54AM (#48021877)

I did that too, and ended up just skipping helm and using envsubst to interpolate the values I need at runtime from env vars. Nearly everyone preferred that approach. YMMV of course.

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Re:Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? by nijave on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:34AM (#48023962)

I think that's a good approach if it works for your use case. Sometimes you might want something slightly more sophisticated like basic logic (loops/conditionals). In those cases, you can still use helm but you have an extremely simple template and avoid many of the "can't read this template" helm pitfalls.

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Re:Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? by stackskipton on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:30AM (#48023904)

BTW, this is what Flux V2 (GitOps) supports as well and we do at our company. It's worked well and covered almost all our use cases.

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