Kubernetes

Why Pulumi for Kubernetes?

Deploying Helm charts declaratively.
- Helm CLI supports only imperative commands, you need to add a repository, update the repository, and install the chart with a single command, it's really hard to manage the lifecycle of the Helm chart in this way.
- Pulumi can deploy Helm charts declaratively, you can manage the lifecycle of the Helm chart easily.
Deal with secrets in a secure way.
Deploying Kubernetes resources in a unified way, instead of running a bunch of commands like kubectl apply, helm install, kustomize, etc.

Why not ArgoCD or FluxCD?

ArgoCD & FluxCD support only Kubernetes, and it's too heavy for my use case.

Pulumi supports not only Kubernetes but also other cloud providers like Proxmox, Libvirt, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. It's a unified way to manage the lifecycle of all my infrastructure resources.