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kapp
kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label
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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.
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ytt-library-for-kubernetes
ytt (https://github.com/k14s/ytt) library that includes reusable K8s components (app, ...)
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vendir
Easy way to vendor portions of git repos, github releases, helm charts, docker image contents, etc. declaratively
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ytt-library-for-kubernetes-demo
Demo of ytt + kapp + k8s-lib to deploy a simple app with basic autoscaling
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docker-image
Source for ghcr.io/vmware-tanzu/carvel-docker-image:latest that includes various Carvel tools (by carvel-dev)
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setup-action
Github Action for setting up Carvel apps (ytt, kbld, kapp, kctrl, kwt, imgpkg and vendir)
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terraform-provider-carvel
Carvel Terraform provider with resources for ytt and kapp to template and deploy to Kubernetes
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K3S newbie question: How do I force a running Pod or Deployment to pick up a new Image?
Pipe your manifest through https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kbld before deploying. It will resolve the image tags to digests.
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How do you update your repos for ArgoCD?
you can also use a tool such as kbld which is capable of taking yaml that has a floating tag or specifier, building your image, pushing it to a registry, and then emitting the same yaml but with the floating tag locked down into a SHA.
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(question) Getting Kubernetes to update deployment & understanding imagePullPolicy: Always
We use https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/carvel-kbld do workaround this issue. You can just pass your deployment.yaml to kbld and it will rewrite all image tags to their corresponding resolved digests. You can than pipe the result to kubectl apply or your deployment tool of choice (we use Kapp from the same developers as kbld).
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How do you manage your updates?
From purely a container standpoint, for my home Kubernetes cluster, I use ArgoCD for deployment and wrote a little plugin to pipe the final manifests (generated through helm, kustomize, static files, whatever) through kbld. kbld replaces the image tag with the digest sha, which means ArgoCD sees it as a change to the manifest, and with auto-sync turned on deploys the latest image automatically. I've had my Argo applications configured this way for over a year with basically no issues.
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Deploy Neo4J's APOC plugin with code thanks to CARVEL vendir
kbld - Build or reference container images in Kubernetes configuration in an immutable way
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carvel-dev/kbld is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of kbld is Go.
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