Does Kubernetes have a way of reusing manifests without copying and paste them? Something akin to Terraform templates.
Is there a way of passing values between manifests?
I am looking to deploy the same service to multiple environments and wanted a way to call the necessary manifest and pass in the environment specific values.
I'd also like to do something like:
Generic-service.yaml
Name={variablename}Foo-service.yaml
Use=General-service.yaml
variablename=foo-service-apiAny guidance is appreciated.
Kustomize, now part of kubectl apply -k is a way to parameterize your Kubernetes manifests files.
With Kustomize, you have a base manifest file (e.g. of Deployment) and then multiple overlay directories for parameters e.g. for test, qa and prod environment.
I would recommend to have a look at Introduction to kustomize.
Before Kustomize it was common to use Helm for this.