Helm shines when you’re consuming vendor charts (nginx-ingress, cert-manager, Prometheus stack). It’s basically a package manager for k8s. Add a repo, pin a version, set values, and upgrade/rollback as one unit. For third-party infra, the chart’s values.yaml provides a fairly clean and often well documented interface
Yeah, I agree. Creating and maintaining helm charts sucks, but using them (if they are properly made and exposes everything you want to edit in the values.yaml) is a great experience with gitops tools such as FluxCD or helmfile.
I used to be a team that hosted internal enterprise services and this was the main reason we used helm. Someone wrote charts for these self-hosted applications.
(Not all of them were written in a sane manner, but that's just how it goes)
