kbld
kbld seamlessly incorporates image building and image pushing into your development and deployment workflows (by carvel-dev)
kapp-controller
Continuous delivery and package management for Kubernetes. (by carvel-dev)
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5 | 5 | |
281 | 254 | |
1.8% | 1.6% | |
8.0 | 8.7 | |
12 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
kbld
Posts with mentions or reviews of kbld.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-19.
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K3S newbie question: How do I force a running Pod or Deployment to pick up a new Image?
Pipe your manifest through https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kbld before deploying. It will resolve the image tags to digests.
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How do you update your repos for ArgoCD?
you can also use a tool such as kbld which is capable of taking yaml that has a floating tag or specifier, building your image, pushing it to a registry, and then emitting the same yaml but with the floating tag locked down into a SHA.
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(question) Getting Kubernetes to update deployment & understanding imagePullPolicy: Always
We use https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kbld do workaround this issue. You can just pass your deployment.yaml to kbld and it will rewrite all image tags to their corresponding resolved digests. You can than pipe the result to kubectl apply or your deployment tool of choice (we use Kapp from the same developers as kbld).
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How do you manage your updates?
From purely a container standpoint, for my home Kubernetes cluster, I use ArgoCD for deployment and wrote a little plugin to pipe the final manifests (generated through helm, kustomize, static files, whatever) through kbld. kbld replaces the image tag with the digest sha, which means ArgoCD sees it as a change to the manifest, and with auto-sync turned on deploys the latest image automatically. I've had my Argo applications configured this way for over a year with basically no issues.
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
kbld - Build or reference container images in Kubernetes configuration in an immutable way
kapp-controller
Posts with mentions or reviews of kapp-controller.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-10.
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Helm is both "package manager" and "templating engine" - probably the best package manager but horrible template engine
We use kapp-controller when applying our charts (it uses helm template instead of helm install) so we can be very rigorous about what fields are changeable (like through pod autoscaling) and what are not (securitycontext, etc.)
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How to handle the lifecycle of multiple COTS
Even further, you could describe your "fetch", "template", and "deploy" stages in akapp-controller AppCR and then you'd have a controller (like an operator) running the cluster continuously reconciling your private cloud to ensure that it's always reconverging to the desired state. This is basically what's underpinning a number of VMWare's commercial (and OSS) Tanzu offerings, as well as some other organization's internal platforms, or "self hosted private clouds"
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ArgoCD vs. crossplane-helm provider for managing helm releases?
Full disclosure: I work on https://carvel.dev/kapp-controller/ which can also continuously reconcile helm charts (via our own CRD ).
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Deployment Packaging Solutions
kapp-controller
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
kapp-controller - Capture application deployment workflow in App CRD. Reliable GitOps experience powered by kapp.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kbld and kapp-controller you can also consider the following projects:
imgpkg - Store application configuration files in Docker/OCI registries
cnab-spec - Cloud Native Application Bundle Specification
kapp - kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
vendir - Easy way to vendor portions of git repos, github releases, helm charts, docker image contents, etc. declaratively
asdf - k14s asdf plugin
kwt - Kubernetes Workstation Tools CLI
homebrew - Provides tools from https://carvel.dev via Homebrew package.