Kubernetix (K8x)

Deploy and manage reusable apps with typescript and javascript

Features:

• .env integration
  • K8X_MY_VARIABLE
• Automatic namespace handling
  • Auto create/upgrade namespaces
• Sharing
  • npm install -D @charts/wordpress
  • import Wordpress from "@charts/wordpress"
• Packaging/Versioning
  • npm version patch -m "Upgrade to 1.0.1 for reasons"
  • npm pack @charts/wordpress
  • npm publish wordpress.tgz
• Typescript
• Single binary
• Safe sandboxing
• Proper IDE support
• Single installation definition
  • Specify chart.name and run k8x install without name parameter
• Interactive chart inspection
  • Load and inspect a file interactively with k8x inspect. It will display all information rendered based on the
  • input it has.
• Reusable components
  • Props
• Hooks
  • <Wordpress beforeInstall={slackMessage} afterInstall={slackMessage} onError={handleError} />
  • beforeInstall afterInstall onInstallError beforeUpdate afterUpdate onUpdateError

Usage

k8x install <file>
k8x inspect <file>
k8x new <path>
k8x version

Goals

Reuse existing infrastructure and code features for enhanced developer experience

Non Goals

• Replace helm

Helm differentiation

I feel like helm was built by the ops side of devops people. k8x is built by the dev side of devops people.

In general k8x is pretty similar to helm. It also took a lot of inspiration from it. But where helm is reinventing the wheel, k8x just falls back to already used mechanisms and infrastructure. (npm/typescript/configuration)

Topic	helm	k8x
Packaging	custom	npm
Templating	gotmpl	js/ts
Configuration	--set servers.foo.port=80	.env
Scripting	custom	js/ts
Code sharing	custom	js/ts

By custom I mean either a custom implementation, or a existing template language with limited or changed features.

Terminology

Component

A piece of reusable/configurable code, that is typically a kubernetes object, for example ingress, pod, service