Tag: tanka

  • ArgoCD, Jsonnet and Tanka in 2024

    A few years ago, I got to know Jsonnet and I loved it at first sight. I used a nice little tool called tanka to manage my Jsonnet manifests and I got them working together with ArgoCD, and finally I re-deployed my blog using this combo. Everything worked like a charm, until… Recently I upgraded…

  • Blog Deployed With Jsonnet, Grafana Tanka and ArgoCD

    It’s been a year since I did the ‘Hello World’ with Jsonnet and Tanka, then I made a simple side-loader container to install Tanka as a plugin to ArgoCD and finally deployed an httpbin container with ArgoCD + Tanka + Jsonnet. However since Jsonnet wasn’t used in my work, those things were shelved afterwards. Recently…

  • ArgoCD, Jsonnet and Tanka

    Ever since I’ve installed ArgoCD in my garage Kubernetes lab, I wanted to make Tanka work with ArgoCD, so that I can do GitOps with Jsonnet, in addition to YAML, kustomize and helm charts. I was hugely inspired by(read: copied and pasted from) this blog post. Here are the steps I made Tanka worked as…

  • Hello World, Grafana Tanka

    I liked YAML a lot, until it gets longer and longer, and even longer. There are tools to make YAML ‘DRY’, the popular ones are Helm and Kustomize. But none of them can say it got the job done. To be honest, I didn’t like Helm much from the start. Helm uses templating syntax similar…