SEsea-gold·Feb 16, 2025Submission
Tanka: Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
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tanka
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tanka
Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
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Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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6 sourcesI think it might still have issues figuring out that it needs to apply CRDs first: https://github.com/grafana/tanka/issues/246 Besides that, I found it super-handy for deploying https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator and https://github.com/kubernetes-monitoring/kubernetes-mixin
LE: The "garbage collection" feature is very interesting, but I didn't get to experiment with it enough yet: https://tanka.dev/garbage-collection
In The Dhall Configuration Language> like some kind of post-processor for helm
If you don't use Helm's "advanced" features, like helm upgrade etc. Try tanka [1].
[1] https://github.com/grafana/tanka
In Kubernetes 1.23 ReleasedWe are using tanka [0] and are failry happy with it. The jsonnet language allows nice layer of abstraction while still allowing to directly generate kubernetes resources when necessary. We wrote in-house library to map (very) simplified .jsonnet file to kuberenetes deployment; after all, 90% deployements are mostly same and differs in minor details only. Seems to work reasonably well.
0: https://github.com/grafana/tanka
In Tools to Run Kubernetes LocallyIf you like those, I'd take a look at Grafana's Tanka [0]. It also uses jsonnet but has some additional features such as showing a diff of your changes before you apply, easy vendored libraries using jsonnet-bundler, and the concept of "environments" which prevents you from accidentally applying changes to the wrong namespace/cluster.
[0] https://github.com/grafana/tanka
In How we use HashiCorp NomadYup!
We also have a lot of other open source jsonnet tooling:
https://github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs
https://github.com/grafana/tanka
In Grafana Labs raises $24M