Kubernetes Is Our Generation's Multics

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  • carvel

    Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. This repo contains information regarding the Carvel open-source community.

    There are some attempts to gradually find alternatives to Helm while remaining compatible with it. See https://carvel.dev/ for example.

    There is a lot of innovation possible in this space.

  • hcl

    HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.

    I have only looked at the HashiCorp tools, not really used them. My understanding is they originated in a VM-based world and I've worked almost exclusively with containers. (Though lately I use neither VMs or containers :) I hope to make it back into the mainstream computing world at some point)

    I will say that I looked at HCL and it looks very nice:

    https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl

    But somehow it's not as popular as a mess of YAML and Go Templates? That genuinely leaves me scratching my head. I guess it's because people pick platforms and not languages? (historical note: I designed and implemented the template language that Go templates are based on, and I find their common application pretty bizarre, e.g. in some Helm charts I looked at from this thread)

    Oil is growing a config dialect that looks a lot like HCL (although it's convergent evolution; I've never used it.) I think there is a lot of room for mixing declarative and imperative; as far as I can see HCL is mostly declarative (defining data structures).

    Anyway I'd be interested in reading about HashiCorp stuff but for some reason in my neck of the woods I don't hear too much about it. Maybe that's because they're paid services and the open source Kubernetes seems attractive by comparison? Or is it more of a VM vs. container thing?

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  • mgmt

    Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

    > I'd be curious what a better alternative looks like.

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

    It's just not finished yet. with < 0.01% of the funding kube has, it has many times more design and elegance. Help us out. Have a look and tell me what you think. =D

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