Differences with Helm charts?

[chainhead]

My first impressions on OAM:

1. How is this different from Helm charts
2. Wasn't Helm expected to solve application delivery?
3. Wouldn't bundling multiple workloads be similar to Helm chart?

[wonderflow]

Helm CLI and Helm charts is a packing tool and packaging artifacts format, it provides several deploy features while it's not focusing on CD and you still need to build a platform on top of Helm for real usage.

OAM provides an application model and its implementation KubeVela is more like a framework to build a PaaS. It provides not only the abstraction but also lots of out of box features such as multi-cluster deployment, observability, UI console, multi-tenant, and etc.

• If you're just find a solution for continuous delivery with deterministic scenario that don't need much extension and platform capability, you can just use helm charts along with tools like argocd.
  • If you're building a platforms that going to serve lots of business teams, OAM and KubeVela are recommended.