Are We Stuck With Helm Forever? A Landscape of Cloud Native CNF Manag...
summary
Helm dominates CNF packaging (roughly ~90% market share), but this work shows concrete alternatives: kpt separates data from transformations and provides KRM functions, validation and mutation pipelines that render manifests into Git and let operators edit live YAML with predictable blast radius; rendered manifest pattern pairs git commits one-to-one with cluster resources; porch for mass orchestration adds versioning, bulk upgrades and Git-backed storage; AI can generate charts but kpt + porch + Nefio enable staged, verifiable inputs and outputs for safer automation.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Kubernetes evolution
- 3:13Helm vs Kustomize
- 5:40GitOps: Argo CD vs Flux
- 7:30Render manifest pattern
- 10:26KPT package management
- 12:58Outage recovery
- 14:45Porch GitOps integration
- 15:48AI in CNF config
- 18:56AI config tooling
- 20:01KPT’s six capabilities
- 21:25Demo and Helm’s future
- 22:29Q&A
