Helm was the 10th project to graduate the CNCF in 2020; described as a package manager for Kubernetes. While Helm is the most popular tool, it’s also the only one that allows you to bundle YAML manifests, configure `packages`, and version-control deployments, among many other features. Four years after Helm graduated, we ask the question: What’s next? And if we create a new package manager targeting Kubernetes workloads, how would it look?

In this talk, Anais will first discuss the history of package managers for infrastructure management and how Helm has become the de facto standard in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Next, we will explore different use cases and potential shortcomings of Helm and Timoni, as well as how those are solved with other tooling we see within GitOps, IaC and Platform Engineering. Following the discussion, Philip will introduce Glasskube, an open source package manager for cloud native environments.