Kapitan Generators

This repository contains the current effors in creating Kapitan Generators

This are meant to be used as part of the Kapitan project and not on their own. Please see <kapitan.dev> or https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan-reference to get started.

What are Generators

As explained in the blog post Keep your ship together with Kapitan, (Kapitan) generators are a powerful idea to simplify the management your configuration setup.

Think of them like "Universal Templates" that you can use to quickly create configurations (for instance, Kubernetes resources) through a Domain-Specific configuration.

For example, the configuration:

parameters:
  components:
    nginx:
      image: nginx

Instructs the "Kubernetes Generator" to create a Deployment kubernete resoures for nginx. The configuration can be extended to include Secrets, Config Maps, Services, env variables, ports and more.

The same configuration can be used by a "Documentation Generator" to create a nginx.md file with a description of the configuration to be consumed as documentation.

Kapicorp Generators

Name	Description	Documentation
documentation	Documentation generator	Documentation
ingresses	Kubernetes Ingress generator	Documentation
kubernetes	Kubernetes resources generator	Documentation
terraform	Terraform generator	Documentation

Community

Generators by neXenio

Name	Description	Documentation
rabbitmq	Manifests generator for RabbitMQ	TBD
argocd	Manifests generator for ArgoCD	TBD