ksux 0.1.0

Easy customization of kubernetes manifests

ksux

A simple way for templating kubernetes manifests.

Requirements

This is a python package. So the only requirements are python3 and pip

Installation

• Optional: Create a virtual env.

# option 1: virualvenv
virtualvenv ksux
source ksux/bin/activate

# option 2: venv
python -m venv ksux
source ksux/bin/activate

# option 3: conda
conda create -n ksux python
conda activate ksux

• Install

pip install ksux

How does it work?

tldr.

ksux -b <path_to_base_dir> -p <path_to_patches_dir> -o <output_dir>

---

Let's say that you have many manifests in some directory (base directory) that you wish to patch with patches (in the patches) directory.

Patches could be in yaml or json format (as well as your manifests). However, they must adhere to following schema:

name: <patch_description>
target:
  apiVersion: <apiVersion of targeted resource>
  kind: <Deployment type of targeted resource>
  name: <name of targeted resource>
ops:
  - name: <operation description>
    path: <path to the part of the manifest to be patched>
    value: <value which should be replaced or added>
    action: <add|replace|remove>

each patch file must be a list of patches. E.g.:

- name: deployment_patches
  target:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: web
  ops:
    - name: replace_image
      path: /spec/template/spec/containers/nginx/image
      value: nginx:1.23
      action: replace
- name: service_patches
  target:
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    name: nginx-service
  ops:
    - name: add_https_port
      path: /spec/ports
      value:
        name: https
        port: 443
        protocol: TCP
        targetPort: 443
      action: add
    - name: rename_http_port
      path: /spec/ports/http/name
      action: replace
      value: new_name

Then all you need to do, is run:

ksux -b <path_to_base_dir> -p <path_to_patches_dir> -o <output_dir>

This will save all patched manifests to the output dir. You can use the --dry-run flag

ksux -b <path_to_base_dir> -p <path_to_patches_dir> --dry-run

For list of all options see:

ksux --help

the op path

This is a pretty cool thing. Similar to kustomize path, however you can target list item by names of child objects. E.g. say you have a list of ports in a service:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  labels:
    app: nginx-service
  name: nginx-service
spec:
  ports:
    - name: new_name
      port: 80
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: 80
    - name: https
      port: 443
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: 443
  selector:
    app: web
  type: ClusterIP

To target the https service and change its name, you can specify the path: /spec/ports/https/name and then set the value to the new name 💪.