How do you deploy apps to Kubernetes without writing Helm charts?
I mean the middle ground: not hand-writing charts/YAML, and not installing an in-cluster PaaS either. What do people actually use for that, especially CLI-only?
I mean the middle ground: not hand-writing charts/YAML, and not installing an in-cluster PaaS either. What do people actually use for that, especially CLI-only?
This post is also using helm, putting a DSL in front because yaml sucks and templated yaml is insane. The problem here is the DSL, devs don't want a DSL for k8s ime, it becomes yet another abstraction of complexity. I render full k8s yaml for helm and avoid the templates
I'm happy to hear that I'm not the only one that thinks this.
From experience, you will likely get the most pushback / dropoff from the DSL. Like people want to get at helm if needed, creating an abstraction (DSL) of the underlying k8s constructs will make it too challenging to get at the actual underlying k8s resources. I get that yaml is repeatative and there is a place for reuse, but a custom CLI and DSL is not paletable.
Maven, docker buildx, jenkins, github actions, helm, ArgoCD, Tekton, Terraform
It's an often-broken Franken-Goldberg machine
I've architected our CI pipeline (newer folks are doing the CD portion), it's a monorepo tamed with CUE and Dagger, runs on Jenkins that needs to simulate an air gapped install of k8s then some helm. Can't imagine using multiple systems for the same piece of the pipeline!