Ready for massive use, the open project Nelm has been announced as “Alternative Helm 3”. Nelm, a fork of Helm – a package manager for Kubernetes using charts to expand applications – was developed during the CI/CD values development process of Werf. The Nelm code is available on Github under the Apache 2.0 license.
Several issues present in Helm have been addressed in Nelm, alongside the addition of new features such as:
- A more consistent approach to renewing Kubernetes resources utilizing Server-Side Apply technology instead of 3-way Merge;
- Monitoring the state of resources and retrieving logs during deployment;
- Visual planning of future releases with an output akin to “TerRaform Plan”;
- Support for working with encrypted “Values” and files.
Nelm’s future plans involve offering an alternative to the current Go-shapes for charts.
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