From Helm Chart to Developer UI in 5 Minutes

Helm is great… …until you give it to a developer. The fact is, Helm was made for people who understand Kubernetes. As a DevOps engineer, you can define complex deployments, manage environment-specific configs, and reuse logic with templating. Beautiful. But for most developers, Helm charts are just confusing. Helm assumes a certain level of Kubernetes fluency that many developers simply don’t have. And that’s okay. They should be focused on building and shipping products, not worry about the underlying infrastructure. This, however, causes friction since developers become overly reliant on DevOps engineers for every small change and deployment. Helm is great, just not as a user interface. But let’s fix that! In this post, I’ll show you how to turn any Helm chart into a simple UI that your devs (or even non-tech folks) can actually use. It won’t take longer than 5 minutes. Ready, set, go ⏳ #1 Cyclops

Apr 3, 2025 - 13:57

From Helm Chart to Developer UI in 5 Minutes

Helm is great…
…until you give it to a developer.

The fact is, Helm was made for people who understand Kubernetes. As a DevOps engineer, you can define complex deployments, manage environment-specific configs, and reuse logic with templating. Beautiful.

But for most developers, Helm charts are just confusing. Helm assumes a certain level of Kubernetes fluency that many developers simply don’t have. And that’s okay. They should be focused on building and shipping products, not worry about the underlying infrastructure.

This, however, causes friction since developers become overly reliant on DevOps engineers for every small change and deployment.

Helm is great, just not as a user interface.

But let’s fix that! In this post, I’ll show you how to turn any Helm chart into a simple UI that your devs (or even non-tech folks) can actually use. It won’t take longer than 5 minutes.

Ready, set, go ⏳