guslees

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by guslees 8y ago
I feel like the KEP was never examined "adversarially". And that isn't the right word, because nobody wants to create conflict where there is none. Perhaps "skeptically" is a better word, but even that implies som
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by guslees 8y ago
Making an "easier" app-level experience very quickly becomes (necessarily) opinionated, because you need to anticipate which k8s parameters need to be exposed and which can be derived/assumed. Narrowing the configuration spa
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by guslees 8y ago
The fork is my fault. I agree it's confusing. I wrote (and still maintain) kubecfg. Heptio joined the project and started adding lots of great stuff. Eventually it was clear they wanted to take it in a direction that was different t
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by guslees 8y ago
I wrote kubecfg as an unashamed imitation of borgcfg, because for all that we like to complain - borgcfg + GCL + git works extraordinarily well. Kubecfg uses jsonnet, which is similarly openly inspired by GCL (but with some important chang
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by guslees 9y ago
That's not quite true. More parts == more things that can fail, but whether those failures result in the entire system failing depends on how you've combined the parts. If you make each of the pieces required parts of the who
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by guslees 9y ago
^ This.
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by guslees 9y ago
If it's helpful at all, here's a concrete example of a k8s nginx setup that exports-to/is-monitored-by prometheus: https://github.com/bitnami/kube-manifests/blob/master/common... (Start at
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by guslees 9y ago
If you (and others on this sub-thread) like managing kubernetes through version control, I humbly suggest trying out the ksonnet/kubecfg toolchain ( https://github.com/ksonnet/kubecfg and the closely related ksonne
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by guslees 9y ago
The idea is that we can support both simultaneously: - people who want/need full expressiveness can do that, and - people who don't need that can happily use higher-level templates that someone else has put together. Previous ef
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by guslees 9y ago
It's "alpha", as the version signifies - but there's a linux/x86-64 binary of 'kubecfg' you can play with on https://github.com/ksonnet/kubecfg/releases