helm diff? Installing one plugin, I hit 4 pitfalls in a row
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Today's learning task started out simple: install the helm-diff plugin, try helm diff upgrade once, and understand why you'd want it in production.
Instead, from the helm plugin install moment onward, I hit 4 pitfalls in a row — and the last one let me actually witness how "the diff shows no change, but the real deployment changes things" happens. Here's the whole process, written down.