terraform-kubestack VS NubesGen

I've recently released a major update for Kubestack, the Terraform framework for Kubernetes platform engineering teams. This update moves all functionality previously provided by Kubestack Cloud into the kbst CLI.

We've got some overlap on the stack part. But I am more focused on the infra side of platform engineering (including bootstrapping clusters), seems for you it's more app dependencies. Check https://www.kubestack.com and ping me if you're interested in chatting.

With Kubestack, the open-source Terraform framework I maintain, I'm on a mission to provide the best developer experience for teams working with Terraform and Kubernetes. And unified provisioning of all platform components, from cluster infrastructure to cluster services, is something I consider crucial in my relentless pursuit of said developer experience.

kops - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management silver-surfer - Check ApiVersion compatibility and provide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubernetes to latest versions Kube-ops-view - Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters kubeprompt - Kubernetes prompt info Metalk8s - An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes Clusterman - Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos Cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates Goldilocks - Get your resource requests "Just Right" katafygio - Dump, or continuously backup Kubernetes objets as yaml files in git Rancher - Complete container management platform Sealed Secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets OpenKruise/Kruise - Automate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io kubectl snapshot - Take Cluster Snapshots kapp - simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label https://get-kapp.io keda - Event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes Octant - To better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters Portainer - Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment Gardener - Deliver fully-managed clusters at scale everywhere with your own Kubernetes-as-a-Service Kubed - Kubernetes Cluster Operator Daemon Kubestack - Kubestack is the free and open-source GitOps framework to codify your custom platform stack using Terraform.

In this post I hope to provide a few reasons why frameworks make sense for infrastructure as code, Having tried out Kubestack this got me thinking, Should more of these frameworks exist? And do they provide the same value as a traditional web framework like Flask, Express.js, or Ruby on Rails. Now you might be thinking don't tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef already exists?

Unsurprisingly, my biased proposal is to use Kubestack to provision the GKE and EKS clusters leveraging the Kubestack framework's unified GKE and EKS modules, and to write a custom module to connect the resulting clusters to Anthos. The bespoke module would integrate the IAM, Anthos and Kubernetes resources required fully into the Terraform state and lifecycle instead of calling kubectl and gcloud like the official Google modules do.

Really cool project. I'll put it on the list of things to integrate with my project Kubestack https://github.com/kbst/terraform-kubestack

What is NubesGen exactly? Well Julien's documentation states:

Using GitOps practices, NubesGen can also fully automate applying that configuration: it provides one cloud infrastructure per branch in your project, and will build and deploy your code to this infrastructure.