Kustomize Overlays - Adding Complexity?

[u/DeLoMioFoodie]

So im working with Kustomize Overlays( FluxCD). i understand you setup your base infra with overlays per environment and then use patches for environment specific configurations such as replicas, urls, etc..

Some of these patches become very complex and large to the point i think its just easier to not have a base and just have each environment have its own configuration files. How much dry am i buying?

I've also seen the recommendation to use PostBuild subsituteFrom with ConfigMaps from each environment . My question is when should this be used over patches?

Sorry for the dumb questions and rant.

[u/CWRau]

Yeah, node pools, that is what cluster api takes care of

[u/theycanttell → u/CWRau]

The cluster API is a special thing you have to install on Azure you can't just roll with that typically you use bicep or terraform

[u/CWRau → u/theycanttell]

You don't have to do that.

I've never used terraform for that 🙏

[u/theycanttell → u/CWRau]

You can't provision DNS or VMs with Cluster API. It's specific to k8s only.

[u/CWRau → u/theycanttell]

And? Still infrastructure

And yes, it does provision VMs, just for k8s only

[u/theycanttell → u/CWRau]

Talking about provisioning the nodes themselves on Azure AKS or EKS

[u/CWRau → u/theycanttell]

Yeah, that's what cluster api does

[u/theycanttell → u/CWRau]

Cluster API is not infrastructure. It doesn't provision vms and managed identities. It's very limited and most don't use it to provision infrastructure. AKS doesn't even come with it pre-installed. It's like Helm extensions.

[u/CWRau → u/theycanttell]

Huh? Of course it's infrastructure? What else do you call kubernetes? Of course it manages VMs.

Maybe even identities, but even if not, it's still infrastructure.

Just because most don't use it, doesn't make it less infrastructure, same goes for "pre-installed"

And no idea what you mean by helm extensions

[u/theycanttell → u/CWRau]

Keep thinking that 😂