What’s the current best practice for handling

kubectl

commands that just don’t convert to Pulumi yet? (for example Helm Chart deploys with hooks)

You could consider helm release: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/full-access-to-helm-features-through-new-helm-release-resource-for-kubernetes/

Nice, didn’t catch this one - will see if I can get this working - Thanks @sparse-park-68967