Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm | Hacker News

I think this might be a step in the right direction, but my main problem with Kubernetes package management today might not be fixable by a package manager, sadly. The biggest issue I have in my daily life is handling the multiple levels of nested YAML and the unpredictability of the results. Think of an ArgoCD ApplicationSet that generates a bunch of Applications. Those Applications render a bunch of Helm charts, and inside those charts there are CRDs used by some random operator like Strimzi, Grafana or Vector. Given YAML's lack of syntax and the absense of any sort of standard for rendering templates, it's practically impossible to know what are the actual YAML being injected in the Kubernetes API when you make a top-level change. It's trial and error, expensive blue-green deployments and hundreds of debugging minutes all the way, every month.