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 11.1K GitHub stars and 2.3K 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
40 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?
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.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
