Helmfile

Wherein I describe how I organize Helm charts and other k8s manifests. I’ve had this post laying around in my draft folder for a long long time. Mostly because I started writing it before I realized how useful it is to write posts very close to when something happens. The “something happens” in this case is the answer to the question “How to organize my Helm charts and other k8s manifests?”. I liked Helm fine enough when I looked at it. It’s pretty nice to get all necessary manifests to run an app, instead of having to write all of them myself. But the question then was: How to store which exact Helm charts I have installed, and in which version? And how/where to store the values.yaml files? And then, what about random manifests, like additional PriorityClasses? ...