Hey all! I’m looking for some input on an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while and just started hacking on the past few days. I call it “Mistletoe”, and it’s yet another Kubernetes package manager, like Helm. I’m writing it due to some frustrations I’ve had with Helm in the past not supporting more complex cases.

I’m still in the early stages, so only the most trivial parts work, which is why I wanted feedback before I really put the gas on. The cliff’s notes are that it’s a Kubernetes package manager where the packages are WebAssembly modules that take input YAML strings and output Kubernetes resource YAML strings. It turns out that writing packages for it is pretty braindead simple, so I have high hopes, but please feel free to give me a reality check if I’m spouting nonsense.

  • walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    OCI allows you to package arbitrary content in a docker image. In this case it would be a collection of k8s yaml files. Two main benefits of this approach are:

    • Your gitops tool only needs image registry access, not git access
    • The OCI image contains the final yaml. Your CI pipeline is responsible for generating the image.

    Flux already supports this and I other tools to follow.