Customize the Kustomize for Kubernetes CRDs

I’ve introduced Kustomize in this earlier post, now I feel even happier because Kustomize can be even more customized for some CRDs(Custom Resource Definition). For instance, Kustomize doesn’t know how to handle Istio’s VirtualService object, but with some simple YAML style configurations it ‘learns’ to handle that easily.

# k8s service, ie. service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: wordpress-svc
spec:
  selector:
    app: wordpress
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80
      targetPort: 8080
  type: NodePort

YAML
​x
 
# k8s service, ie. service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: wordpress-svc
spec:
  selector:
    app: wordpress
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80
      targetPort: 8080
  type: NodePort

# istio virtual service. ie. virtual-service.yaml
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: wordpress-vs
spec:
  hosts: 
    - wordpress
  http:
    - match:
      - uri: /
      route:
        - destination:
          host: wordpress-svc
          port:
            number: 80

YAML
xxxxxxxxxx
 
# istio virtual service. ie. virtual-service.yaml
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: wordpress-vs
spec:
  hosts: 
    - wordpress
  http:
    - match:
      - uri: /
      route:
        - destination:
          host: wordpress-svc
          port:
            number: 80

# kustomize name reference, ie. name-reference.yaml
nameReference:
  - kind: Service
    version: v1
    fieldSpecs:
      - path: spec/http/route/destination/host
        kind: VirtualService

YAML
xxxxxxxxxx
 
# kustomize name reference, ie. name-reference.yaml
nameReference:
  - kind: Service
    version: v1
    fieldSpecs:
      - path: spec/http/route/destination/host
        kind: VirtualService

# main kustomize entry, ie. kustomization.yaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
configurations:
  - name-reference.yaml
namespace: wordpress
nameSuffix: -raynix

YAML
xxxxxxxxxx
 
# main kustomize entry, ie. kustomization.yaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
configurations:
  - name-reference.yaml
namespace: wordpress
nameSuffix: -raynix

So in name-reference.yaml, kustomize will learn the host property in VirtualService will be linked to the metadata.name of a service. When the name suffix -raynix is applied to the Service, it will also be applied to the VirtualService, eg.

kind: Service
metadata:
  name: wordpress-svc-raynix
...

kind: VirtualService
spec:
  http:
    - route:
      - destination:
          host: wordpress-svc-raynix
...

YAML
xxxxxxxxxx
 
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: wordpress-svc-raynix
...
​
kind: VirtualService
spec:
  http:
    - route:
      - destination:
          host: wordpress-svc-raynix
...

For more information: transformer configs

February 6, 2020

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