different from jsonnet?

[ghostsquad]

Honest question: how is this different from jsonnet?

[DavidWells]

Looking at https://jsonnet.org/ a lot of things are different 😄

For starters this adds variable support to existing config formats (yml, json, toml etc). Anything you can parse into a object (in node) can be used. So it’s a variable system for whatever format you’d want.

Also asynchronous values are allowed. Idk if jsonnet does that or not

[ghostsquad]

How does async work? What's the value add there?

[DavidWells]

Async values are quite useful for secrets & remote values that may have changed (service discovery)

https://github.com/DavidWells/configorama/tree/master/tests/asyncValues

You can define your own async variable like ${ourSecrets:key} and have that fetch from your remote secret store during configuration resolution

[ghostsquad]

cool. Thanks for the explanations!

[DavidWells]

Thanks for the questions 😃

Out of curiosity, How’d you find the repo?

[ghostsquad]

From twitter actually! Specifically this thread:

https://twitter.com/DavidWells/status/1172177440703037440

[ghostsquad]

I'm a Kubernetes guy, and I like that K8s uses YAML for it's manifests. YAML is pretty easy to read, easy to write, and there's a lot of tools out there that will output JSON or YAML, so you really can choose whatever language/templating you want while working with Kubernetes manifests.

I somewhat understand that people want something better than YAML/JSON, but I think they missed the point of why Kubernetes team chose it. They chose it because it's the common denominator. Anyways, I'm a big fan of Jsonnet for this exact reason. I'm still pretty curious though about other tools that are coming out, such as this one!