Kustomize Reference

1 min read | by Jordi Prats

Kustomize is a tool for customizing Kubernetes configurations that allows you to manage and modify Kubernetes resources. Kustomize uses YAML files to define patches, overlays, and other customizations that can be applied to existing Kubernetes manifests.

patch

• Kustomize: Escape Forward Slash (/): how to escape forward slashes (/) in Kustomize patches using the ~1 notation
• Kustomize: Update cross object references: Kustomize chan update objects references for the objects it deploys
• Kustomize: Delete a resource from an existing manifest: Kustomize can be used to remove objects using patches

Generator

• Kustomize: disable hashed configMap: Use disableNameSuffixHash to disable appending a hash to the ConfigMap name when using configMapGenerator

Helm

• Render a helm chart using Kustomize: Kustomize can be used to render helm charts in order to patch them