Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes

Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by gravypod on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:15PM (#26295552)

I've done the same in the past. The important thing is making it so it's easy to build up abstractions and to work in a sensible deployment flow.

kubectl is close but doesn't understand secrets/variables, the concept of clusters, or changing image tags programmatically. It's difficult to get right.

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by mdaniel on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:51PM (#26295948)

> kubectl is close but doesn't understand secrets/variables, the concept of clusters, or changing image tags programmatically. It's difficult to get right.

Isn't that the problem kustomize (which kubectl now has native support for applying) is trying to solve? I ask that honestly, because I haven't used kustomize in anger in order to compare its workflow to that of helm

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by jpgvm on Sunday February 28, 2021 @02:26PM (#26296258)

I did the full gambit of helm 1/2 tiller/tiller-less and kustomize. Personally kustomize is only marginally better than helm.

I need to check out kubecfg, I haven't used it yet.

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by gravypod on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:56PM (#26295986)

My mistake. I meant kubecfg which is built off of jsonnet.

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by jpgvm on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:21PM (#26295631)

Yeah this is all stuff this tool understood, multiple clusters, managing kube contexts, external secret storage or k8s secrets, native git integration, etc.

Definitely agree that it's difficult to get right but the authors of the tool definitely struck a really good balance.

Hopefully if I implement it myself I can do their original design and implementation justice.

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