Just a Helm Chart. It always starts simple. A few options, a couple of flags, and the best intentions. Then the requests start coming in. “Can we also support this?” “What if someone needs that?” Before long, the config file looks like a museum of past decisions, full of toggles nobody remembers adding and an ever-increasing queue of new feature requests.

After maintaining one of those for too long, I learned that flexibility is not about offering every possible switch. It is about choosing the right ones. Real freedom comes from clear boundaries, good defaults, and the courage to remove things that no longer make sense, or just say no.

We will explore what happens when configuration grows too much, how to make it healthy again, and how to better communicate decisions to users.

Talk combines philosophy and practical lessons. Focuses on designing configurable packages, planning deprecations, and empowering users while keeping complexity manageable