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		buster 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helm 4.0 Yes, you really don't need to use helm if you have terraform. Just use https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes... . If you used helm + terraform before, you'll have no problem understanding the terraform kubernetes provider (as opposed to the helm provider).

e12e 5 months ago [–]

It does make it challenging to track operators as upstream usually only provide/document helm installation.

If you write your own tf definition of operator x v1, it can be tricky to upgrade to v2 - as you need to figure out what changes are needed in your tf config to go from v1 to v2.

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