carvel

https://carvel.dev/

Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to kubernetes.

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src: Carvel: small tools for joyfully deploying apps to Kubernetes by Daniel Garnier-Moiroux

Abstract

Multiple tools to help deploy on k8s:

• ytt: template and overlay k8s configuration via YAML structure
  • can use python code
• kapp: install, upgrade and delete multiple k8s resources as one “application”
• kbld: build or reference container images in k8s configuration in an immutable way, for a fully reproducible deployment
• imgpkg: bundle and relocate application configuration (with images) via Docker registries
• kapp-controller: package manager that is compatible with Gitops ideas
• vendir: declaratively state what files should be in a directory
• secretgen-controller: generate various types of secretes in-cluster as well as export and import secrets

Reviews

2024-07-12

Those tools look promising. However, since I’m still not too deep on kubernetes, I still don’t know their values yet… So for now, I’m still using good ol’ tools like kubectl and helm.