kompose VS kubevela

Install Kompose - a conversion tool that allows you to convert your Docker Compose code to Kubernetes configuration files Run kompose convert in the same directory as your docker-compose.yml to generate the config files for your Kubernetes cluster

Kubernetes (via kompose)

As stated on their homepage, with Kompose, you can now push the same file to a production container orchestrator!. The tool definitely covers a wide range of Kubernetes features, among which these are meaningless locally but crucial for kubernetes :

K3s is a small, open source, no nonsense, distribution of Kubernetes. I think you'll find it just as easy to setup as Swarm. The challenge will be that Kubernetes has an entirely different API compared to Docker/Docker Compose. This can be mitigated by a tool called kompose, but using this will limit what you can do on Kubernetes.

Although I recently moved my own services from docker compose to kubernetes using https://kompose.io/ and now the only thing I run with docker compose, currently, is my private docker registry but everything including in kube, are always in their own folders.

I haven't run into the need to do that, but there is the Kompose project that exists to help with the conversion (https://kompose.io/)!

Compose claims to do that. https://kompose.io and https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/translate-compose-kubernetes/

Finally, I think the OAM model offers one possible future. Take a look at projects like KubeVela and Crossplane. These allow you to compose your own custom abstraction layer. The developer creates a simple CRD called "Application" and this is translated into ths k8s or even off-cluster resources. Problem right now is the complexity is transferred onto guys configuring the platform..... I want to see more "out of the box" implementations.

Gotcha, thanks! We already run ArgoCD but having devs write raw manifests feels so low-level when it’s usually the same combo of configmaps, ingresses, services, deployments… Maybe this is more in the direction of what I’m looking for? 🤔 https://kubevela.io

Note: On that topic, I'm keeping a close eye on the Open Application Model and the kubevela projects. I think it’ll help write a representation of an application and its components that we can validate the structure of our code against, and generate documentation from it. Not a complete solution to the problem, but it'll help with certain parts of architecture documentation

Also, kubevela is getting ready to connect to clusterpedia https://github.com/kubevela/kubevela/issues/4237,