We are at a crossroads in moving towards GitOps and a CD vendor change, and are forced into some manifest conversion. From where we are coming from Helm is the obvious choice, but I do think we can do better, especially for debugging, readability, and inheritance.

ArgoCD’s support for jsonnet turned me onto it and Tanka, and now I’m going to take it for a more serious spin. I’m early days with it but I’m curious about how life is with having a compiled language for an infra development. I had the same reluctance when thinking about making the Typescript leap, but that turned out just fine. I kinda want to jsonnet all the things if it works out well, but I worry the compilation steps would make it cumbersome for some use cases.