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What the Helm?!

Juraj on July 05, 2024

Kubernetes applications rarely (if ever) consist of a single resource. In a basic example, you have a deployment running your app and a service to ...

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Scott Rigby • Aug 4

Hi Juraj, nice writeup. Two things:

you may want to consider opening a PR to add Cyclops to the list of community tools built on Helm, at helm.sh/docs/community/related/. Feel free to ping me in #helm-dev channel in kubernetes slack.
have you considered adding post-rendering functionality to Cyclops? I imagine this may be the opposite of what you want, since it's about opening up options not available in values.yaml, while Cyclops allows you to limit to only a subset of those. But I could also imagine some combo could be effective for certain use cases.

Juraj • Aug 5

Hey Scott, thanks for the comment. We will open the PR this week and link it in the k8s slack, as mentioned :)

As for post-rendering, we definitely want to implement something like this in Cyclops. We were thinking about adding it a while ago but decided to wait until we shipped a more stable release of Cyclops. Thanks for the nudge!
We will take some time to find the best way to integrate it.

Cheers!