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Can anyone advise what is the most common language used in enterprise settings for interfacing with K8s?

• JohnMakin 2y ago
  IME almost exclusively golang.
  • roshbhatia 2y ago
    ++, most controllers are written in go, but there's plenty of client libraries for other languages. A common pattern you'll see though is skipping writing any sort of code and instead using a higher level dsl-ish configuration usually via yaml, using tools like Kyverno.
  • angio 2y ago
    I'm seeing a lot of custom operators written in Rust nowadays. Obviously biased because I do a lot of rust myself so people I'm talking to also do rust.
• gadflyinyoureye 2y ago
  Depends on what you mean. Helm will control a lot. You can make the yaml file in any language. Also you can admin it from command line tools. So again any language but often zsh or bash.
• cortesoft 2y ago
  A lot of yaml
  • yen223 2y ago
    The fun kind of yaml that has a lot of {{ }} in them that breaks your syntax highlighter.
• mplewis 2y ago
  I have seen more Terraform than anything else.
• akdor1154 2y ago
  On the platform consumer side (app infra description) - well schema'd yaml, potentially orchestrated by helm ("templates to hellish extremes") or kustomize ("no templates, this is the hill we will die on"). On the platform integration/hook side (app code doing specialised platform-specific integration stuff, extensions to k8s itself), golang is the lingua franca but bindings for many languages are around and good.
• bithavoc 2y ago
  If you’re talking about connecting to Kubernetes and create resources programmatically, Pulumi allows you to interface with it from all the languages they support(js, ts, go, c#, python) including wrapping up Helm charts and inject secrets( my personal favorite). If you want to build your own Kubernetes Custom Resources and Controllers, Go lang works pretty well for that.