Helm Deployments

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1		Pipeline					GitOps			CRD		Total Mess
2		Helm	Helmsman	Helmfile	Pulumi	Keel	Weave Flux	Faros	Eunomia	Helm Controller	Chart Operator	Terraform Helm Provider
3	Maintainer	Helm	Praqma	Rob Boll	Pulumi	Rimusz	Weave Works	Pusher	Kohls Technology	Kubedex	Giant Swarm	Hashicorp
4	Primary State	Source code	Source code	Source code	Source code	Source code	Git Repo	Git Repo	Git Repo	CRD	CRD	Terraform remote state
5	Complexity	Simple	Simple	Simple	Simple	Moderate	Complex	Moderate	Moderate	Simple	Simple	Complex
6	Logic Location	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Helm Chart	Controller	Controller	Controller	Controller	Controller	Terraform
7	Clear Change History	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
8	Idempotent	Semi	No	Yes	No	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
9	Logging	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Pipeline Task	Controller Pod Log	Controller Pod Log	Controller Pod Log	Controller Pod Log	Kubernetes Job	Controller Pod Log	Obscured in Terraform output
10	Diff Mechanism	No	helm-diff	helm-diff	native	native	native	native	native	helm-diff	native	See comment
11	Merge Patch Strategy	2-way	2-way	2-way	3-way*	2-way	2-way	3-way*	3-way*	2-way	2-way	yolo
12	Secrets Support	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	-	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
13	Registry Support	-	-	-	-	GCR, ECR	GCR, ECR	-	-	-	CNR	-
14	Tiller	tillerless or server	tillerless or server	tillerless or server	-	-	server	-	-	tillerless	server	server
15	Desired Config Format	Yaml	Toml, Yaml	Yaml	Node, Python, Go	Yaml	Yaml	Yaml	Yaml	Yaml	Yaml	HCL
16	Templating	No	No	Go	Any	-	No	No	No	No	No	HCL
17	Continue from failure	No	No	Yes	No	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
18	Protected Namespaces	No	Yes	No	No	-	No	No	No	No	No	No
19	Namespace Promotion	No	Yes	No	No	-	No	No	No	No	No	No
20	Deployment Hooks	No	No	Yes	No	-	No	No	No	No	No	No
21	Release ordering	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	-	No	No	No	No	No	No
22	Helm-X Support	Yes	No	Yes	No	-	No	No	No	No	No	No
23	Private Helm Repo	Any	HTTP, S3, GCS	HTTP	HTTP	-	HTTP	HTTP	HTTP	HTTP	HTTP	HTTP
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