What is Kustomize?
It introduces a template-free way to customize application configuration that simplifies the use of off-the-shelf applications. Now, built into kubectl as apply -k.
Kustomize is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Kustomize is an open source tool with 10.9K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kustomize's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kustomize?
Companies
22 companies reportedly use Kustomize in their tech stacks, including Trendyol Group, midas-engineering, and Coya Stack.
Developers
39 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kustomize.
Kustomize Integrations
Kubernetes, Argo, Kyverno, Kubestack, and Monokle are some of the popular tools that integrate with Kustomize. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Kustomize.
Kustomize's Features
- Purely declarative approach to configuration customization
- Natively built into kubectl
- Manage an arbitrary number of distinctly customized Kubernetes configurations
- Available as a standalone binary for extension and integration into other services
- Every artifact that kustomize uses is plain YAML and can be validated and processed as such
Kustomize Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kustomize?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
