Flux, IIRC, uses labels or annotations to do purging. Helm I'd argue falls into the state category with the secrets if uses to track releases. I do everything

Flux, IIRC, uses labels or annotations to do purging. Helm I'd argue falls into the state category with the secrets if uses to track releases. I do everything with Terraform so I'm not super familiar with either of them. But teams are free to choose their poison.