This is why I use Terraform for my kubernetes objects. Yes, it is a DSL and not perfect but it has many advantages over helm such as: - State. I cannot express

This is why I use Terraform for my kubernetes objects. Yes, it is a DSL and not perfect but it has many advantages over helm such as: - State. I cannot express how useful having the desired and actual state of a system is. It makes it so much easier to determined what has changed in between terraform applies which in turn makes tracking down problems easier. - Providers. Being able to chain resources together from other systems is very powerful. As an example, I can: 1) create a database with a random name 2) create a user/password for that database 3) save the data above as a kubernetes secret 4) pass that secret into my kubernetes container for the service to use. And you can easily change database to be anything such as a storage bucket, dns entry, twilio account, stripe account, etc. Now try and do the exact same thing with helm! - Providers Part 2: You can write your own providers to talk to your OWN services. I have done this and written up some go code to talk to our internal APIs when setting up new customers. It is very easy to create your own terraform resources to do this. There are more reasons but I have work to do :)