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Appendx C: Removed Sections

The following parts of the proposal have been removed.

Overlays​

An earlier draft included a provision for overlaying templates within charts. This section was removed once we realized that the same thing can be easily accomplished using the post-render event and some trivial Lua.

This appendix will be removed before the final proposal.

Chart.yaml refactored as Kubernetes resource​

An earlier draft proposed formatting Chart.yaml as a Kubernetes resource. However, it became evident that there was no intention of installing the Chart.yaml into the cluster, at which point it did not make sense to retain that functionality.

Application CRD​

Earlier drafts contained information about implementing the Application CRD proposal as a feature of Helm.

While there is a plan to support Application CRD in Helm, it will not be a required feature of Helm. For that reason, it has been removed from the proposal.

Alternatives to Lua extensions​

The following alternatives were proposed:

  • Implement lifecycle event handlers as containers in-cluster
  • Reimplement Helm in Python|Ruby|TypeScript|JavaScript
  • Extend Plugins to be event handlers