Configuration management tools

[rael]

Thread to talk about the different configuration tools to manage Kubernetes configuration files.

Tools

• Helm
• Ship
• Kustomize
• Jsonnet
• Ksonnet
• Pulumi
• Kapitan

Articles and other resources

• The State of Kubernetes Configuration Management: An Unsolved Problem
• Kustomize KEP
• Kustomize Subcommand Integration
• Declarative application management in Kubernetes

Feel free to comment and provide tools and other resources than may be useful for other folks trying to figure out how to manage Kubernetes configuration files and manifests.

[rael]

Added kustomize KEP, Sub-command Integration and Declarative application management in Kubernetes links.

[macintoshprime]

Starting off some baseline cookie cutter templates to get Devs started, but looking into using either Helm and/or Kustomize to help improve management.

As for our infrastructure we’re using Rancher internally so we manage configuration of our clusters via RKE which is really nice.