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> The biggest flaw in Helm is the decision to use text-templating for semantic data. This leads to ridiculous situations like having to specify the number of sp

> The biggest flaw in Helm is the decision to use text-templating for semantic data. This leads to ridiculous situations like having to specify the number of spaces to indent a block, so the output YAML can be parsed properly. My mind was blown when I saw this the first time. Let's hope that the developers are planning on supporting alternate templating schemes.

ivan4th 7y ago
The complaints about Lisp parentheses sound especially funny in the context of that kind of mainstream DevOps tooling https://github.com/helm/charts/blob/eceb82f6308578b824d58f80dd8c28cd18d31c60/stable/influxdb/templates/deployment.yaml#L23 https://github.com/helm/charts/blob/eceb82f6308578b824d58f80... (EDIT: yep, I'm a Lisp fan and a Kubernetes guy at the same time, and this kind of templating is like worst kind of "blasphemy" for me :)
- p_l 7y ago
  Same here, and with Helm 2 it wouldn't even return an error, just silently fail with a timeout... Spent a week debugging that...