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Chocolatey vs. Helm

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chocolatey
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows designed to make complex tasks simple, from Chocolatey Software in Topeka. The vendor states Chocolatey can easily handle all aspects of package management, but it is also able to work well within the existing ecosystem that is Windows software management.N/A
Helm
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Helm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.N/A
Pricing
ChocolateyHelm
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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ChocolateyHelm
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
ChocolateyHelm
Likelihood to Recommend
6.8
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8.2
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Support Rating
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8.0
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User Testimonials
ChocolateyHelm
Likelihood to Recommend
Chocolately is perfect if you need a robust, well-supported (by the community) package manager. It has basically every major library/tool that you need to do development. I used it specifically in UI test automation.
Chris Hyde | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Hyde
Test Engineering Manager
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Deployment of helm charts is really fundamental to any software packages to our Kubernetes/docker containers, and without Helm, I cannot imagine how else to manage software components upgrades. When it works, it works great, when it doesn't - the world has not come to an end, there is rollback, and it's great, but troubleshooting does take time. And there is a learning curve. But it be worth it.
VT
Victor Tay
Engineer
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Pros
  • Package management
  • Dependency management
  • Ease of use
  • Availability of libs
Chris Hyde | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Hyde
Test Engineering Manager
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  • Infrastructure duplication
  • Customization of environments
  • Applying of security updates
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
Team Lead, Cloud DevOps
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Cons
  • Available software to install is not easy to find.
  • You need admin rights to install all software.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • It would be great if there is verbose mode in Helm errors. Not sure if it's a thing. But more detail in the errors do helps, at times.
VT
Victor Tay
Engineer
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Support Rating
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We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
Cristian Klein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cristian Klein
Cloud Native Architect
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Alternatives Considered
On OSX machines we use brew which works if compared to Chocolatey, a lot better. You could see that on Windows machines the idea of a command line-based software installation tool is not very common, especially if you want to use tools like Python or other scripting languages.
Verified User
Anonymous
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We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
Team Lead, Cloud DevOps
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Return on Investment
  • Improved time to setup new machines
  • Improved security due to easy update process of installed software
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • developer velocity
  • uptime
Cristian Klein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cristian Klein
Cloud Native Architect
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