why not adopt some useful features in helm?

[zffocussss]

Hi team:
I used helm for my k8s resources management.there are some convenient options in helm.
For example,the below

--set stringArray              set values on the command line (can specify multiple or separate values with commas: key1=val1,key2=val2)
--set-string stringArray       set STRING values on the command line (can specify multiple or separate values with commas: key1=val1,key2=val2)
--set-file stringArray         set values from respective files specified via the command line (can specify multiple or separate values with commas: key1=path1,key2=path2)
--set-json stringArray         set JSON values on the command line (can specify multiple or separate values with commas: key1=jsonval1,key2=jsonval2 or using json format: {"key1": jsonval1, "key2": "jsonval2"})
--set-literal stringArray      set a literal STRING value on the command line

in which cases,the key value pair can be passed into the yaml template.the datasource is not useful for many users like me(a devops engineer).because what we want to keep is to keep many templates,which some tools can render.
as helm can only render charts,which is not useful for the other non-helm release.
Can you please kindly consider these useful options from helm template?

for example
app.yaml

hello, {{ .name  }}

gomplate --set name=bob -f app.yaml
=>
hello,bob

[zffocussss]

I have a similar confusing as #1494

[hairyhenderson]

Hi @zffocussss,

Helm and gomplate are different tools, with different purposes.

I disagree with your assertion that "the datasource is not useful for many users like me (a devops engineer)". Many people who do devops-type things use gomplate datasources successfully for their purposes. If you personally don't find datasources useful, that's fine.

That being said, here's one way you can achieve what you're looking for:

$ MYVAR='{"name":"bob"}' gomplate -c '.=env:///MYVAR?type=application/json' -i 'hello, {{ .name }}'
hello, bob

It's awkward, sure. But it seems to me to be a niche use-case. Read the gomplate docs for more details.