Kustomize is an increasingly popular tool for managing Kubernetes manifests. Rather than using templates, as Helm does, Kustomize works by building on existing manifests. Using this pattern it provides various features including resource namespacing, modification of metadata, and generation of Kubernetes Secrets - all without editing the source manifests. #kubernetes

With kustomize built into the kubectl CLI since version 1.14, there is little reason not to take advantage of this overlay system to deploy components to your Kubernetes cluster. Kustomize has the advantage that it is purpose built to understand and validate yaml and Kubernetes CRD, as opposed to bespoke templating solutions using sed/envsubst, Ansible, ... Kubernetes: kustomize overlay to enrich a base resource #kubernetes

#kubernetes #docker #docker-compose #pub

Configuration management is a hard, unsolved problem. When we first started Argo CD, a GitOps deployment tool for Kubernetes, we knew we had to limit its scope to a deployment tool and not go anywhere near config management. #from-pocket #itfttt #ci-cd #devops #kubernetes #pub