Managing Kubernetes Configurations Across Multiple Environments

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Hi all

I’m looking for strategies to manage Kubernetes configurations effectively across multiple environments (e.g., development, staging, production). How do you maintain consistency and manage configuration drift between different Kubernetes clusters? Are there any tools or practices that have proven effective for you in ensuring configuration reliability and reproducibility?

Thanks!

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  1. Terraform is most widely used for multiple environments for cloud agnostic solution. As long as you bundle it as module, you can keep it consistent. It comes with its own challenges to manage and maintain version of terraform module as it scales if not handled properly but that can be the case for other tools as well.
  2. Another CNCF project getting traction in this space is cross plane but I wont advise for those who starters as fresh for cloud resource provisioning.
  3. Other widely used tools by different organizations are AWS cloud formation, Ansible, Pulumi, GCP Deployment manager etc depending on developers learning curve and/or existing expertise in those tools as well as adopting it.
    Other widely