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Use different name of the kustomization.yaml

11/4/2020

For CI/CD purposes, the project is maintaining 2 kustomization.yaml files 1. Regular deployments - kustomization_deploy.yaml 2. Rollback deployment - kustomization_rollback.yaml

To run kustomize build, a file with the name "kustomization.yaml" is required in the current directory. If the project wants to use kustomization_rollback.yaml and NOT kustomization.yaml, how is this possible? Does kustomize accept file name as an argument? Docs do not specify anything on this.

-- Girish
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1 Answer

11/9/2020

Currently there is no possibility to change the behavior of kustomize to support other file names (by using precompiled binaries) than:

  • kustomization.yaml
  • kustomization.yml
  • Kustomization

All of the below cases will produce the same error output:

  • kubectl kustomize dir/
  • kubectl apply -k dir/
  • kustomize build dir/
Error: unable to find one of 'kustomization.yaml', 'kustomization.yml' or 'Kustomization' in directory 'FULL_PATH/dir'

Depending on the CI/CD platform/solution/tool you should try other way around like for example:

  • split the Deployment into 2 directories kustomization_deploy/kustomization_rollback with kustomization.yaml

As a side note!

File names that kustomize uses are placed in the:

  • /kubernetes/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/pkg/constants/constants.go
// Package constants holds global constants for the kustomize tool.
package constants

// KustomizationFileNames is a list of filenames that can be recognized and consumbed
// by Kustomize.
// In each directory, Kustomize searches for file with the name in this list.
// Only one match is allowed.
var KustomizationFileNames = []string{
	"kustomization.yaml",
	"kustomization.yml",
	"Kustomization",
}

The logic behind choosing the Kustomization file is placed in:

  • /kubernetes/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/pkg/target/kusttarget.go

Additional reference:

-- Dawid Kruk
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