https://apealive.net/tags/kubernetes/Recent content in Kubernetes on make me: APeHugoen-usMon, 27 Jul 2026 14:23:12 +0200https://apealive.net/post/cue-configuration-kernel-part-1/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:23:12 +0200https://apealive.net/post/cue-configuration-kernel-part-1/<blockquote> <p><strong>Subtitle: Mastering Declarative Configuration Options</strong></p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>If you’ve spent any time operating Kubernetes in production, you’ve hit the Wall of YAML. Helm charts nested inside other Helm charts, Kustomize overlays overriding overlays, and a sea of copy-pasted boilerplate that slowly drifts across dev, staging, and production environments.</p> <p>Most platform engineering teams try to solve this with more template processing, leading to the infamous &quot;Kubernetes configuration tax&quot; where engineers spend more time writing string-replacement logic than writing core application code.</p>https://apealive.net/post/helm-charts-wheelhouse/Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:01:07 +0200https://apealive.net/post/helm-charts-wheelhouse/<div class="paragraph lead"> <p>Flexible way to perform configuration management actions in the Helm chart’s.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>We uses years Salt, Chef, Ansible, …​ to do complex configuration steps, but when it came to implement a new feature in Helm Chart app folks once again tend to fall back to bash, curl and the Helm hell templates.</p> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="tldr-">TL;DR <a href="#_tldr" class="hanchor" data-arialabel="Anchor">🔗︎</a><a class="heading-anchor" href="#tldr-" aria-hidden="true">#</a> </h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>My use-case is simple. I want to update <a href="https://github.com/Mirantis/k8s-apps/tree/master/charts/influxdb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Influxdb chart</a> . and provide way to:</p>