To be clear, I think that Deis is using helm under the hood too, but you never have to interact with helm or your chart. Draft is written so you could probably

To be clear, I think that Deis is using helm under the hood too, but you never have to interact with helm or your chart. Draft is written so you could probably avoid ever running the helm client, but it is a much thinner layer of sugar on top. You are very near the helm charts, but in Deis you might never even realize that there are helm releases associated with your app. The Deis client interface is pretty fully featured, almost drop-in as a comparison to heroku client. Using Draft, you are encouraged to edit your charts, but with Deis it is well-hidden and there is probably never any need to do that. Service brokers (for supporting dynamic allocation of things like shared instances of postgres and redis, like you get with heroku) are a thing, but they are newer and I have not seen them being used in practice yet.