I've just submitted a PR [1] to remove the "old style" non-Helm deployment from the deploy-kube project.
The Helm-based deployment is (a) much simpler for users to deploy and (b) supports strictly more configuration options than the code being removed. We've been heading this direction for a couple of months, but since this is a significant change I wanted to raise it on the dev list and wait for a couple of days before actually proceeding with the removal of the old code. thanks, --dave [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube/pull/239
