k8s-alpha

This repository contains artifacts of the very new Jsonnet Kubernetes library generator k8s-gen, located at https://github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s.

Usage

With Tanka

# set up Tanka project, we will install k8s ourselves
$ tk init --k8s=false

# pull k8s-alpha for Kubernetes 1.18
$ jb install github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-alpha/1.18

Then put the following into lib/k.libsonnet:

(import "github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-alpha/1.18/main.libsonnet")

Standalone

$ jb install github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-alpha/1.18

Then import it in your project:

local k = import "github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s-alpha/1.18/main.libsonnet"

FAQ

Is it stable?

We don't know. It seems to work pretty well, but it is very young code, so it is not battle tested.

The API aims to be very similar to ksonnet-gen, but not 100% the same, to allow enough room for important improvements.

If something does not look as expected, please open an issue at https://github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s

Shall I use it?

Yes, please! We need to get as much feedback as possible to enhance it, so it's your chance to be part of that!

Why a new generator?

The original generator located at https://github.com/ksonnet/ksonnet-gen is not maintained anymore, and only provides artifacts for Kubernetes versions up to v1.14

Can I use it to replace ksonnet-lib?

Yes, however there are a few incompatibilities. Most of them are now covered by ksonnet-util, please have a look here if you intend to support both libraries.

Known incompatibilities:

• ksonnet-lib has hidden objects that are exposed as 'Type' objects inside other objects, for example core.v1.container.envType, these are now available as first class citizens, for this example core.v1.envVar. The ksonnet-util covers this problem.
• new(name) constructors have a mandatory name argument, this was not always the case in ksonnet-lib. The ksonnet-util covers this problem.
• ksonnet-lib as nested many functions in .mixin., k8s-alpha also supports this. However, library maintainers should also include this if they intend to support both libraries.
• This library does not support chaining of functions, for example container.new(name).withEnv(env). Turns out this practice had a big performance penalty on the Jsonnet compiler. A mixin pattern is therefor encouraged: container.new(name) + container.withEnv(env).

What about kube-jsonnet/k?

The ksonnet-gen software was forked and updated at https://github.com/kube-jsonnet/k, by RedHat and Grafana Labs, the same company behind this project.

While working on it, we quickly realized that the overall code complexity, performance and correctness is far from what we desire and decided to switch efforts to rewriting it from scratch.

The result of that is https://github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s and expected to replace both, https://github.com/ksonnet/ksonnet-gen and https://github.com/kube-jsonnet/k as soon as possible.

Where can I find documentation?

The generated docs can be found here: https://jsonnet-libs.github.io/k8s-alpha/.

I found a bug, where can I report this?

Great, let's try and fix that, please report issues in https://github.com/jsonnet-libs/k8s.