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kapp
- HELM vs KUSTOMIZE
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How to handle the lifecycle of multiple COTS
If you want to take it one step further: you might be applying several resources at a time that are logically one "application". kapp (https://carvel.dev/kapp/) lets you group those together and give them a name, and provides a "terraform-like" experience where it shows you its execution plan before applying updates. So then you might do `ytt -f | kapp deploy -a name-of-thing` Or you could use helm's templating engine but then still pass the resulting yaml to kapp for its unification of the deployment step.
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Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
since you mentioned Kubernetes...
> It would be nice if there was a separate state reconciliation system that one could adapt to use with Cue or Dhall or any other frontend
this exactly was thinking behind https://carvel.dev/kapp for Kubernetes (i'm one of the maintainers). it makes a point to not know how you decided to generate your Kubernetes config -- just takes it as input.
> In particular the ability to import other files as semantic hashes seems like a great feature.
it's an interesting feature but seems like it should be unnecessary given that config can be easily checked into git (your own and its dependencies).
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Terraform should have remained stateless
i think kubernetes is not a great example in favor of more client state (like tf) since k8s has uniform resource structure (metadata.*) and first class labeling support. but as you point out kubectl doesnt use labels well (at least imho).
when building https://carvel.dev/kapp (which i think of as "optimized terraform" for k8s) the goal was absolutely to take advantage of those k8s features. we ended up providing two capabilities: direct label (more advanced) and "app name" (more user friendly). from impl standpoint, difference is how much state is maintained.
"kapp deploy -a label:x=y -f ..." allows user to specify label that is applied to all deployed resources and is also used for querying k8s to determine whats out there under given label. invocation is completely stateless since burden of keeping/providing state (in this case the label x=y) is shifted to the user. downside of course is that all apis within k8s need to be iterated over. (side note, fun features like "kapp delete -a label:!x" are free thanks to k8s querying).
"kapp deploy -a my-app -f ..." gives user ability to associate name with uniquely auto-generated label. this case is more stateful than previous but again only label needs to be saved (we use ConfigMap to store that label). if this state is lost, one has to only recover generated label.
imho k8s api structure enables focused tools like kapp to be much much simpler than more generic tool like terraform. as much as i'd like for terraform to keep less state, i totally appreciate its needs to support lowest common denominator feature set.
common discussion topics:
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Is there any CLI tool to sync between local yamls and current cluster namespace state?
Take a look at kapp (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kapp).
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
kapp - Install, upgrade, and delete multiple Kubernetes resources as one "application"
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Open Application Model – An open standard for defining cloud native apps
I really like this approach for simplifying Kubernetes. A few projects similar to OAM in that it provides a higher level "Application" CRD:
https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kapp
hadolint
- Dockerfile Linter
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Writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash (2022)
To skip the "move your scripts to standalone files" step some devs don't like, consider something like https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint which runs Shellcheck over inline scripts within Containerfiles.
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I reduced the size of my Docker image by 40% – Dockerizing shell scripts
This is neat :)
I love going and making containers smaller and faster to build.
I don't know if it's useful for alpine, but adding a --mount=type=cache argument to the RUN command that `apk add`s might shave a few seconds off rebuilds. Probably not worth it, in your case, unless you're invalidating the cached layer often (adding or removing deps, intentionally building without layer caching to ensure you have the latest packages).
Hadolint is another tool worth checking out if you like spending time messing with Dockerfiles: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
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Top 10 common Dockerfile linting issues
With Depot, we make use of two Dockerfile linters, hadolint and a set of Dockerfile linter rules that Semgrep has written to make a bit of a smarter Dockerfile linter.
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hadolint - Dockerfile linter
# Download hadolint wget https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/releases/download/v2.12.0/hadolint-Linux-x86_64 # Download SHA256 checksum wget https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/releases/download/v2.12.0/hadolint-Linux-x86_64.sha256 # Validate the checksum sha256sum -c hadolint-Linux-x86_64.sha256 # Make the file executable chmod + ./hadolint-Linux-x86_64 # Rename the file mv hadolint-Linux-x86_64 hadolint
- Haskell Dockerfile Linter
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Is adding a USER best practice?
The most common linter I've seen and used it Hadolint, which does: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/wiki/DL3002 I didn't bother checking to see if alternatives also support this as well though.
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Checkmake: Experimental Linter/Analyzer for Makefiles
Some discussion on that here:
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/58
The hadolint project does shell checking for Dockerfiles and it uses shellcheck:
https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
So the approach is definitely feasible, but you do need a new project and probably it needs to be written in Haskell.
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Dokter: the doctor for your Dockerfiles
how does this compare to something like hadolint?
Also, have you run across Hadolint for linting? https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
What are some alternatives?
kubevela - The Modern Application Platform.
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
dockle - Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start
Flux - Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.
kapp-controller - Continuous delivery and package management for Kubernetes.
stan - 🕵️ Haskell STatic ANalyser
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
hlint - Haskell source code suggestions
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.
grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems