Reloader Alternatives

Reloader reviews and mentions

• How are people managing env vars for Static Applications?
  1 project | /r/devops | 9 Dec 2023

  You can combine this approach with something like https://github.com/stakater/Reloader to automatically restart pods when a certain secret value changes. So if your static code needs to be rebuilt when certain values change, you can use an init container to run the build on startup.

• Containers are crashing due to memory exhaustion caused by secret rotation every minute.
  1 project | /r/kubernetes | 6 Dec 2023

  This is not a cron job? I'm not sure if it helps, but you can have pods do a rolling restart on secret updates: https://github.com/stakater/Reloader that would clear the resources each run, but I'm not entirely clear on what you're looking to achieve.

• True Secrets Auto Rotation with ESO and Vault
  1 project | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023

  If you use secrets as Environment Variables you will need to use something to make workloads get the new credentials, if they just loose connection. You can use the Reloader project for that.

• Automating Configuration Updates in Kubernetes with Reloader
  1 project | dev.to | 23 Jun 2023

  Reloader is designed to simplify the process of updating application configurations in Kubernetes. It monitors ConfigMaps and Secrets for changes and triggers rolling upgrades for associated resources such as Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, and more. Reloader eliminates the need for manual intervention and reduces the risk of errors during the configuration update process.

• How to start a Go project in 2023
  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

  The go k8s packages are pretty bloated - this may also just be a niche case. If you are looking to get secrets with hot reloading, you might also consider mounting a file or setting env vars and coupling it with this reloading operator: https://github.com/stakater/Reloader

• What Wishlist Features Would You Like To See From K8s?
  3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Apr 2023

  For the auto restart this has been a staple install in all clusters for years for me: https://github.com/stakater/Reloader

• Flux & Helm noob here - How do I pass secret values to Helm charts being handled by Flux?
  1 project | /r/kubernetes | 8 Apr 2023

  If you didn't want to use SOPS, for some reason, you can certainly take advantage of external secrets as another commenter proposed, but you won't be able to accomplish (2) without an external tool adding to the mix, like Reloader: https://github.com/stakater/Reloader – that's because something has to update the HelmRelease in order to trigger it to upgrade. (You could just wait for the reconciler to come along, but the tendency is to set the polling interval longer than the default, so Helm won't be re-trying as often, in case something goes wrong...)

• Create new pods upon secret/configmap change in pipeline
  1 project | /r/openshift | 28 Mar 2023
• Environment variables - manifest or configMap?
  1 project | /r/kubernetes | 18 Feb 2023

  You can install https://github.com/stakater/Reloader And then it's just matter of a single annotation and it restarts automatically when there are changes.

• AWS secret store CSI Driver provider - how to reload pod after SecretProvider update?
  2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 15 Feb 2023
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