For our SaaS application PURMA we need at least 7 services that are running. To move them to Kubernetes and offer a self hosted version that way, I to got myself familar with writting helm charts.

My first impression

Helm is like a specialied template engine that can talk to kubernetes to me. It is extremly straight forward to build a small template and just publish it. Set requirments for the user of the chart to fullfill and limit the amount of tinkering to protected against common traps. Of course if someone wanted to they could modify the resulting kubernetes yaml any way they want. I think it is the job of the chart providier to make sure these thing are not needed, but edge cases do exist of course.