carvel VS stern

You should take a look at Carvel maybe something in it could match with your needs.

There's a third option that's quickly rising in popularity, which is Carvel, works great for smaller teams, and allows progressive adoption since it can start as CLI for newer teams learning about gitops concepts.

Carvel (carvel.dev) — featured in opening keynotes.

Huge fan of Carvel tools, it's a whole bunch of them that can help with a wide array of use cases, grab one or two of them for a given scenario, or adopt a bunch that string together to solve larger problems.

+1 been using ytt and kapp, the Carvel stuff in its entirety is a much better experience than helm (it can keep helm to help migration, or deal with the fact everyone still distributes in helm).

Creating Carvel Community which :

https://carvel.dev (and especially the [KAPP](https://carvel.dev/kapp/) piece) is a set of excellent tools to level up on Kubernetes.

Take a look at Kapp on https://carvel.dev/ for this, possibly.

Hopefully this post has helped you make install process smoother, smarter, and made you discover CARVEL tools.

deploy: stage: deploy image: alpine/k8s:1.29.1 variables: NAMESPACE: $CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG before_script: # init namespace - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE || true # download tools - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern && stern --version - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.32.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/kompose && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/kompose && kompose version # show logs asynchronously. Timeout to avoid hanging indefinitely when an error occurs in script section - timeout 1200 stern -n $NAMESPACE "app-" --tail=0 --color=always & # in background, tail new logs if any (current and incoming) pod with this regex as name - timeout 1200 kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get events --watch-only & # in background, tail new events in background script: # first delete CrashLoopBackOff pods, polluting logs - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE delete pod `kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get pods --selector app.kubernetes.io/component=$MODULE | awk '$3 == "CrashLoopBackOff" {print $1}'` || true # now deploying - kompose convert --out k8s/ - kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f k8s/ - echo -e "\e[93;1mWaiting for the new app version to be fully operational...\e[0m" # waiting for successful deployment - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-db - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-back - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-front # on any error before this line, the script will still wait for these threads to complete, so the initial timeout is important. Adding these commands to after_script does not help - pkill stern || true - pkill kubectl || true after_script: # show namespace content - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get deploy,service,ingress,pod

The old repo is dead

node-and-git: image: node:18.10-alpine before_script: - apk --no-cache add git kubectl-and-stern: image: alpine/k8s:1.22.13 before_script: # install stern - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern playwright-and-kubectl: image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.35.1-focal before_script: # install kubectl - curl --show-error --silent --location --remote-name https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.25.3/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x ./kubectl && mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/

I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.

Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes https://github.com/stern/stern

stern v1.22.0

Link to GitHub Repository

If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern

Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming