Chocolatey vs. Helm

Chocolatey

Chocolatey

4 Reviews and Ratings

Helm

Helm

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Chocolatey	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	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	N/A	Helm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.	N/A

Pricing

Chocolatey

Helm

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Chocolatey	Helm
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Chocolatey	Helm
Considered Both Products	Chocolatey Verified User Anonymous Chose Chocolatey 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. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Chose Chocolatey The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked … Incentivized Helpful?	Helm Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Team Lead, Cloud DevOps Chose Helm 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 … Incentivized Helpful? VT Victor Tay Engineer Chose Helm We use Terraform as well. But Terraform is more suited for new deployments and specific use cases. For Helm, it is especially well suited for large scale cloud instances software deployment, by helping us to keep track of software components and versions centrally, and … Incentivized Helpful? Cristian Klein Cloud Native Architect Chose Helm When deploying Kubernetes Manifests, one has a few choice: Vanilla Kubernetes (e.g., kubectl apply), but this requires to do all templating by hand and does not deal with removing Kubernetes objects. Docker compose: Works perfectly (and we love to use it) on a single Docker node, … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Chocolatey	Helm
Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Chocolatey	Helm
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. Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	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. Incentivized VT Victor Tay Engineer Read full review
Pros	Package management Dependency management Ease of use Availability of libs Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	Infrastructure duplication Customization of environments Applying of security updates Incentivized Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Team Lead, Cloud DevOps Read full review
Cons	Available software to install is not easy to find. You need admin rights to install all software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized VT Victor Tay Engineer Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Cristian Klein Cloud Native Architect Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 Incentivized Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Team Lead, Cloud DevOps Read full review
Return on Investment	Improved time to setup new machines Improved security due to easy update process of installed software Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	developer velocity uptime Incentivized Cristian Klein Cloud Native Architect Read full review
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