kustomize
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations (by kubernetes-sigs)
kubectx
Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl (by ahmetb)
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| 28 | 40 | |
| 10,588 | 16,998 | |
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| 9.3 | 3.8 | |
| 1 day ago | 3 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.
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.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kustomize: brew install kustomize
- Kustomize deployment order
- Deploying helm charts with other resources
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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
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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.
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How to pass dynamic values to Kustomize?
See for instance a related issue: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/issues/3866
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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.
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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).
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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)
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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.
kubectx
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubectx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Building a Kubernetes Operator with the Operator Framework
kubectx: brew install kubectx
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Jenkins Agents On Kubernetes
default is where any actions which require a namespace will go into if one is not explicitly defined in a default setup (tools such as kubens can alter this behavior). In the context of Jenkins, namespaces are a useful way to allow isolation of individual Jenkins instances that want to utilize the same Kubernetes cluster. Creation of a namespace is a simple option to kubectl:
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Tool to manage kubeconfig configurations
Here you go: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx and https://kubecm.cloud/
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Setting kubectl context via env var
check out kubectx/kubens https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx very handy tool to permanently switch context/namespace
- Minikube broke my Kubectl config
- Managing local cluster config
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
kubectx + kubens v0.9.4
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[ANN] Kele: Snappy Kubernetes cluster management in Emacs
For a peek at what's currently possible, visit the documentation site, in particular the Usage section. For this initial release, it has feature parity with kubectx and kubens and that's about it, but there's lots of room for growth.
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Injecting secrets from Vault into Helm charts with ArgoCD
I also encourage you to install kubectx + kubens to navigate Kubernetes easily.
- What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kustomize and kubectx you can also consider the following projects:
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
fzf-tab - Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
kpt - Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing
kubie - A more powerful alternative to kubectx and kubens
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
kubeswitch - The kubectx for operators.
kubevela - The Modern Application Platform.
kubecm - Manage your kubeconfig more easily.
tanka - Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
kubectl-neat - Clean up Kubernetes yaml and json output to make it readable
helm-charts - Prometheus community Helm charts
kubectl-trace - Schedule bpftrace programs on your kubernetes cluster using the kubectl