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