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Would you like to count the number of spaces that various items in your manifests are indented and then pass that as an argument to a structure-unaware text fil

Would you like to count the number of spaces that various items in your manifests are indented and then pass that as an argument to a structure-unaware text file templating engine? Would you like to discover your inevitable yaml file templating errors after submitting those manifests to the cluster? Then yes, you are really missing out!

thayne 1y ago
I really, really, wish we could move away from yaml for tools like this.
- IshKebab 1y ago
  If YAML is a foot-gun, templated YAML is a face-cannon.
  - 9dev 1y ago
    I never understood why people didn’t serialize from JSON if they run a transformation step on the YAML anyway. Read JSON, alter in your favorite language, dump YAML as the last step, deploy. Instant prevention of a lot of sadness. Yet somehow, all we have is YAML templating?
    - stackskipton 1y ago
      Kubectl will handle JSON without converting it to YAML. So if you are doing this, then just do kubectl apply -f deployment.json
      - thayne 1y ago
        So why doesn't helm output to json instead of yaml, and avoid all the problems with significant whitespace?
        Finster 1y ago
        crickets
- shepherdjerred 1y ago
  CDK8s works really well. I'm sad it hasn't really taken off. https://cdk8s.io/ https://cdk8s.io/
raphinou 1y ago
A couple of years ago I was using https://kapitan.dev/ https://kapitan.dev/ which I found really good at the time when using jsonnet files to generate the configs. I haven't used it for some time though.