Platform Engineering

25 Helm Features You Didn't Know About That Make You a Better SRE

Twenty-five Helm flags, template functions, chart features and tools that most daily users never touch, each with the operational problem it solves. Written after two years of writing and managing Helm packages in production.

Helm Hooks: What They Actually Do, When to Use Them, and When Not To

What Helm does with a hook step by step, the three things hooks do not do that everyone assumes they do, a migration Job that survives a rollback, and when an initContainer or an Argo CD sync wave is the better tool. Written after two years of writing and managing Helm packages in production.