[retzkek]

I've been enjoying using Tanka [1], which is a command-line tool from the Grafana team to manage k8s configurations, which you define using jsonnet. Complete flexibility, with minimal boilerplate possible by using the older (unmaintained unfortunately) ksonnet library [2] or the upcoming jsonnet-libs/k8s(-alpha) (which we're using in production) [3], or roll your own, abstracting to whatever level you find best.

[1] https://tanka.dev/

[2] https://github.com/ksonnet/ksonnet-lib

[3] https://jsonnet-libs.github.io/k8s-alpha/

[q3k]

I've been using kubecfg [1] with kube.libsonnet [2]. I don't like Tanka as it imposes a given directory structure on me via scaffolding - which is a big no-no for the way I organize projects (I value very unopinionated tools in this regard). I also couldn't get into the ksonnet style of mixins/arguments, as it takes away the ease of overriding underlying Kubernetes structures.

[1] - https://github.com/bitnami/kubecfg

[2] - https://github.com/bitnami-labs/kube-libsonnet