This is the documentation for version 0.39. For documentation on the latest version of kpt, please see kpt.dev.

Consume a package with subpackages

Fetch a kpt package with subpackages from a remote git repository and apply its contents to a cluster

Notice: Subpackages support is available with kpt version v0.34.0+ for [cfg] commands only

This guide walks you through an example to get, view, set and apply contents of an example kpt package with a subpackage in its directory tree.

Steps

  1. Fetch a remote package
  2. View the package contents
  3. Provide the setter values
  4. Apply the package

Fetch a remote package

Fetch an example kpt package with subpackage using kpt pkg get.

get command

kpt pkg get https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kpt.git/package-examples/wordpress \
wordpress

View the package contents

The primary package artifacts are Kubernetes resource configuration (e.g. YAML files).

List package contents in a tree structure

List the local package contents using the tree command.

kpt cfg tree wordpress/

Output:

wordpress
├── [Kptfile]  Kptfile wordpress
├── [wordpress-deployment.yaml]  Deployment wordpress
├── [wordpress-deployment.yaml]  Service wordpress
├── [wordpress-deployment.yaml]  PersistentVolumeClaim wp-pv-claim
└── Pkg: mysql
    ├── [Kptfile]  Kptfile mysql
    ├── [mysql-deployment.yaml]  PersistentVolumeClaim mysql-pv-claim
    ├── [mysql-deployment.yaml]  Deployment wordpress-mysql
    └── [mysql-deployment.yaml]  Service wordpress-mysql

There are two kpt packages in the output:

  1. wordpress
  2. mysql

mysql package is a subpackage of wordpress package

Optionally, users may use other commands like count, grep, cat to further view and understand the package contents.

List setters in the package

The fetched package contains setters. Invoke the list-setters command to list the setters recursively in all the packages.

kpt cfg list-setters wordpress/

Output:

wordpress/
         NAME             VALUE      SET BY   DESCRIPTION   COUNT   REQUIRED
  gcloud.core.project   PROJECT_ID                          3       No
  image                 wordpress                           1       No
  tag                   4.8                                 1       No
  teamname              YOURTEAM                            3       Yes

wordpress/mysql/
         NAME             VALUE      SET BY   DESCRIPTION   COUNT   REQUIRED
  gcloud.core.project   PROJECT_ID                          3       No
  image                 wordpress                           1       No
  tag                   4.8                                 1       No
  teamname              YOURTEAM                            3       Yes

You may notice that the auto-setter gcloud.core.project is already set if you have gcloud configured on your local.

Provide the setter values

Provide the values for all the required setters. By default, set command is performed only on the resource files of provided package and not its subpackages. --recurse-subpackages(-R) can be leveraged to run the command on subpackages recursively.

kpt cfg set wordpress/ teamname myteam -R

Output:

wordpress/
set 3 field(s)

wordpress/mysql/
set 3 field(s)

Apply the package

Now that you have configured the package, apply it to the cluster

kubectl apply -f wordpress/ -R

Output:

service/wordpress-mysql created
persistentvolumeclaim/mysql-pv-claim created
deployment.apps/wordpress-mysql created
service/wordpress created
persistentvolumeclaim/wp-pv-claim created
deployment.apps/wordpress created
Last modified November 9, 2020: docs: consumer guide nits and fixes. (0afc440d)