imgpkg
Store application configuration files in Docker/OCI registries (by carvel-dev)
carvel
Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. This repo contains information regarding the Carvel open-source community. (by carvel-dev)
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| 1 | 11 | |
| 283 | 407 | |
| 0.0% | 0.2% | |
| 7.5 | 7.4 | |
| 4 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | HTML | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
imgpkg
Posts with mentions or reviews of imgpkg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-04.
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
imgpkg - Bundle and relocate application configuration (with images) via Docker registries
carvel
Posts with mentions or reviews of carvel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-06.
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Getting tired of Helm – any better way to handle deployments in Kubernetes?
I prefer ytt for templating and kapp for deployments.
https://github.com/carvel-dev/carvel
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Alternatives to Helm?
You should take a look at Carvel maybe something in it could match with your needs.
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Which GitOps for very small teams?
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.
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Which of the following 6 products from the show-floor at last week's KubeCon 2022 in Detroit did you find the most interesting?
Carvel (carvel.dev) — featured in opening keynotes.
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What are some useful Kubernetes tools you can share?
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.
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Why helm doesn't use a general purpose programming language for defining resources?
+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).
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Running Tanzu unmanaged cluster on (very) low resources
Creating Carvel Community which :
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Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
https://carvel.dev (and especially the [KAPP](https://carvel.dev/kapp/) piece) is a set of excellent tools to level up on Kubernetes.
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Kubernetes Is Our Generation's Multics
Take a look at Kapp on https://carvel.dev/ for this, possibly.
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
Hopefully this post has helped you make install process smoother, smarter, and made you discover CARVEL tools.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing imgpkg and carvel you can also consider the following projects:
vendir - Easy way to vendor portions of git repos, github releases, helm charts, docker image contents, etc. declaratively
kwt - Kubernetes Workstation Tools CLI
oras - OCI registry client - managing content like artifacts, images, packages
mgmt - Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
terraform-provider-carvel - Carvel Terraform provider with resources for ytt and kapp to template and deploy to Kubernetes
carvel-kapp - kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label [Moved to: https://github.com/carvel-dev/kapp]