kustomize
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations (by kubernetes-sigs)
kapitan
Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things (by kapicorp)
Our great sponsors
kustomize | kapitan | |
---|---|---|
28 | 3 | |
10,550 | 1,743 | |
1.4% | 0.7% | |
9.2 | 9.1 | |
6 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Go | Python | |
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.
kustomize
Posts with mentions or reviews of kustomize.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
-
Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kustomize: brew install kustomize
- Kustomize deployment order
- Deploying helm charts with other resources
-
How and when to use Helm and Kustomize together
It's a built in feature of kustomize https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/api/types/helmchartargs.go
-
Alternatives to Helm?
I think the combination of Kustomize and helm works in my experience. For advanced use cases, you can also see KRM functions in Kustomize.
-
How to pass dynamic values to Kustomize?
See for instance a related issue: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/3866
-
Help with Kustomize: cleanest way to replace an environment variable in a pod or deployment?
Using a strategic merge is the safest way so you avoid the index fragility.
-
Helm makes it overly complex, or is it just me?
Rendering out the manifests is something I have been pushing for. Not having to understand how every templating tool works and what actually is being changed is key. Though, it gets complicated when you use helm (or any templating/patching tool) that produces many variants. You also lose any release/deployment time hooks that are provided (helm hooks or recently "patched" kustomize env variables).
-
Deployment with ArgoCD & secrets in helm chart
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/examples/chart.md (edit: oh I see the other commenter also included this link, oops)
-
Monokle, Kustomize & Quality Kubernetes Deployments
Kustomize is an open-source project that “lets you customize raw, template-free YAML files for multiple purposes, leaving the original YAML untouched and usable as is.” It’s now the most popular tool for customizing Kubernetes manifests reasonably, and it’s even built directly into the Kubernetes CLI since K8s v1.14.
kapitan
Posts with mentions or reviews of kapitan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
-
Kubernetes Enthusiasts: Share Your Ideas for Future Dev Tools
https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan is also a very powerful option for managing and generating templates.
-
Would a visual drag and drop builder for K8s clusters be useful to people here?
There's a reason that other tooling is taking different approaches. Visual workflows help for understanding existing manifests - but they'd be horrible for creating/modifying new ones.
- Kapitan: Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kustomize and kapitan you can also consider the following projects:
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
tanka - Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
kpt - Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
devops-exercises - Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
jinja2-cli - CLI for Jinja2
kubevela - The Modern Application Platform.
python-terraform
djLint - ✨ HTML Template Linter and Formatter. Django - Jinja - Nunjucks - Handlebars - GoLang
helm-charts - Prometheus community Helm charts