GitOps Configserver

Inspired by puppet, kustomized and GitOps practices.

Planned features

• multitenant templates
• hieradata variables
• template plugins
• flask rest service
• gitsync for config repository synchronization in web mode

Usage

$ python -m gitops_server.cli config_gen -h
usage: cli.py config_gen [-h] --config_dir CONFIG_DIR

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --config_dir CONFIG_DIR
                        Config directory

Example target repository:

• see config directory for example configuration with templates,
• https://github.com/pprzetacznik/gitops-configserver-tests

$ python -m gitops_server.cli server --config_dir=config
...
$ curl http://localhost:8002/configs
{"tenants":["tenant1"]}

Using cli for generating config

$ pip install -e .
$ gitops-configserver \
      template_gen \
      --config_dir=resources/test_config \
      --tenant_name=tenant2 \
      --template_name=build_variants.yaml \
      --facts='{"environment": "test"}' > result1.txt
$ cat result1.txt
build:
  my_application:
    - env: test
      os: ubuntu22.04
      python: 3.12
    - env: test
      os: ubuntu22.04
      python: 3.13
    - env: test
      os: ubuntu24.04
      python: 3.12
    - env: test
      os: ubuntu24.04
      python: 3.13
    - env: dev
      os: ubuntu18.04
      python: python3.8

Setting up GitHub tokens

• Go to Setting -> Developer Settings -> Fine-grained personal access tokens
• Create a token with following settings:
  • Only select repositories and select your repository
  • Repository permissions and select Content

Set the token as $GH_PAT in your local environment.

Publish new release

$ git tag v1.0
$ git push origin v1.0