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0 pointsclaytonjy1y ago0 comments

I'm somewhat new to helm, after a year I feel like I'm pretty good at it, but struggle to teach other ML folks what I've learned the hard way over the last year. Some of that is helm, plenty of it is Kubernetes. Most of our charts are ingress, service, deployment, service account, scaled object (keda), but there's plenty of small variation even across ML applications, plus the different needs of other teams.

Any good resources you can point me to on how Kustomize might be easier for us?

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stackskipton1y ago

Documentation is best: https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/references/kustomize/

However, biggest is it's just YAML patching. So you don't have this {{if such}} littered throughout your project that people can't easily pick up. Values is biggest reason I see people want Helm but if it's all env variables, kustomize lets you put in .env file it turns into config map and injects into deployments.

It's possible Kustomize doesn't fix your problem esp if Developers have decided it's not their problem. I just find Devs find Kustomize much easier.

frompdx1y ago

Helm is what you should use as your cluster "package manager" to install all of your favorite off the shelf tools. Kustomize is probably a better choice for shipping your internal projects due to the variations you mentioned, but also because the learning curve isn't much steeper than learning about how to work with plain Kubernetes manifests.

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