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I played with Cue last year and while I think the concept is interesting, I've been struggling a bit with actually finding a good application for the technology

by wvh 5y ago

I played with Cue last year and while I think the concept is interesting, I've been struggling a bit with actually finding a good application for the technology. I'd be more interested in using it for validation as a less brain-dead alternative to e.g. json-schema but the documentation talks mostly about manifest generation and Kubernetes-oriented workflows, which already has Kustomize and Jsonnet and templating solutions like Helm.

verdverm 5y ago
There is "cue vet" for command line validation. Are you more interested in validation in APIs? There are interesting use cases for ETL. I have written a tool that generates full-stack code using CUE as the declarative input for your types. (https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof) For CI/CD from source to production, see https://dagger.io https://dagger.io by the creators of Docker. That is a super cool project. I no longer use Helm now that I use CUE, at least I no longer write charts. We do need a Helm like workflow tool built on CUE to replace the text/templating of Yaml Once "cue mod" is managing deps, there is potential for increased and better sharing of module configuration, much like Helm is for kubernetes applications.