Kapitan: Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things

Kapitan is a tool to manage complex deployments using jsonnet, kadet (alpha) and jinja2.

Use Kapitan to manage your Kubernetes manifests, your documentation, your Terraform configuration or even simplify your scripts.

Community

• Main Blog, articles and tutorials: Kapitan Blog
• Slack #kapitan
• Website https://kapitan.dev
• Mailing List kapitan-discuss@googlegroups.com
• London Meetup Group London Kapitan Meetup

How is it different from Helm? Please look at our FAQ!

Main Features

• Use the Inventory as the single source of truth to tie together deployments, resources and documentation. based on reclass
• Use Jsonnet or Kadet (alpha) to create json/yaml based configurations (e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform);
• Use Jinja2 to create text based templates for scripts and documentation;
• Manage secrets with GPG, AWS KMS or gCloud KMS and define who can access them, without compromising collaboration with other users.
• Create dynamically generated documentation about a single deployment (i.e. ad-hoc instructions) or all deployments at once (i.e. global state of deployments)

Quickstart

See https://kapitan.dev/#quickstart

Documentation

See https://kapitan.dev/ or docs/README.md in the source code.

Credits

• Jsonnet
• Jinja2
• reclass

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