Hey all! I’m looking for some input on an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while and just started hacking on the past few days. I call it “Mistletoe”, and it’s yet another Kubernetes package manager, like Helm. I’m writing it due to some frustrations I’ve had with Helm in the past not supporting more complex cases.

I’m still in the early stages, so only the most trivial parts work, which is why I wanted feedback before I really put the gas on. The cliff’s notes are that it’s a Kubernetes package manager where the packages are WebAssembly modules that take input YAML strings and output Kubernetes resource YAML strings. It turns out that writing packages for it is pretty braindead simple, so I have high hopes, but please feel free to give me a reality check if I’m spouting nonsense.

  • walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    I think it would be helpful if you outlined where helm is falling short for you.

    Personal opinion: I think packaging k8s manifests in OCI image format is probably the future. Helm, Kustomize, etc may still be useful in generating the yaml, but the “package management” part will be OCI image registries.