AWS CodeArtifact vs Helm

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for custom developed artifacts that we build in house. Once stored in the repo they are easily shareable and can be used in a ci/cd pipeline to automate deployment.

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Lisa Bogart

Application Developer

Credit First National AssociationBanking, 201-500 employees

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Helm is very well suited for setting up GitOps or DevOps pipelines, as well as quickly setting up large, complex applications, such as Gitlab, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Prometheus/Kibana or MySQL. We also use it intensely to deploy and configure smaller building blocks in the Cloud Native / Kubernetes area, such as Ingress Controller, Cert Manager, External DNS, OpenPolicyAgent, Falco, Fluentd, to name a few.

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Stores versions of resources
Provides ready access to the historical versions

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Lisa Bogart

Application Developer

Credit First National AssociationBanking, 201-500 employees

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Deploying containerized applications in Kubernetes
DevOps

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

I have had minimal involvement with automating our deployments but feedback from other team members leads me to believe it will take some more learning to accomplish
Make sharing the repo easier

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Lisa Bogart

Application Developer

Credit First National AssociationBanking, 201-500 employees

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concurrent deployments
templating values files

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

No score

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Helm 8.0

Based on 2 answers

We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose CodeArtifact without a lot of research because it fit easily into the AWS development toolset easily.

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Lisa Bogart

Application Developer

Credit First National AssociationBanking, 201-500 employees

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When deploying Kubernetes Manifests, one has a few choice:

Vanilla Kubernetes (e.g., kubectl apply), but this requires to do all templating by hand and does not deal with removing Kubernetes objects.
Docker compose: Works perfectly (and we love to use it) on a single Docker node, but not for multi-node clusters.
Kustomize complements (but does not completely replace) Helm.

Furthermore, none of the above solutions allows one to tap into the vast ecosystem of Helm Charts that encapsulate existing knowledge on how to deploy and operate containerized applications.

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

It helped us get our first service up and running in the cloud and allowed us to shut down a more expensive solution

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Lisa Bogart

Application Developer

Credit First National AssociationBanking, 201-500 employees

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developer velocity
uptime

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Cristian Klein

Cloud Native Architect

ElastisysComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No