Kustomize: Kubernetes Configuration Without the Template Sprawl of Helm

Tue, 07 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

There’s a moment, somewhere around your third environment, when a Helm chart stops being a convenience and starts being a small programming language you didn’t ask to learn. You’re staring at {{- if .Values.ingress.enabled }} nested four levels deep, whitespace-sensitive, debugged by squinting at helm template output. The thing you wanted was “the same manifests as production, but with a different replica count and hostname.” The thing you got was Go templating wrapped around YAML, which is a syntax wrapped around a syntax, and your editor can’t help you with either.

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Kustomize: Kubernetes Configuration Without the Template Sprawl of Helm