Helm Summit 2019

Community Helm chart maintainers need to balance the needs of advanced cluster operators with the needs of new Helm users. These needs are in conflict when it comes to determining what attributes should be templated in the upstream Helm chart. This talk will highlight those needs, the conflicts created and propose a decision framework for determining what should be included upstream. Generally, application level config should always be templated to expose those options to users while Kubernetes specific, runtime config should be limited to the most common configuration changes that are needed to deploy the application.