What is Helmfile?
It is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts. It lets you keep a directory of chart value files and maintain changes in version control, apply CI/CD to configuration changes, and periodically sync to avoid skew in environments.
Helmfile is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Write, version-control, apply the desired state file for visibility and reproducibilityModularize common patterns of your infrastructure, distribute it via Git, S3, etc. to be reused across the entire companyManage your cluster consisting of charts, kustomizations, and directories of Kubernetes resources, turning everything to Helm releasesJSON/Strategic-Merge Patch Kubernetes resources before helm-installing, without forking upstream charts
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Helmfile Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Helmfile?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
