customize-package-installation.hbs.md

Customizing Package Installation

You can customize package configuration which is not exposed through data values by using annotations and ytt overlays.

Customizing manually installed packages

To customize a manually installed package, follow these steps:

1. Create a Secret with your ytt overlay. See Carvel documentation for more information about ytt overlays.
2. Update your PackageInstall to include the ext.packaging.carvel.dev/ytt-paths-from-secret-name.x annotation to reference your new overlay Secret.

See Carvel documentation for more information.

Customizing packages installed by using a profile

To add an overlay to a package installed by using a Tanzu Application Platform profile, follow these steps:

1. Create a Secret with your ytt overlay. See Carvel documentation for more information about ytt overlays.

2. Update your values file to include a package_overlays field.

   package_overlays:
   - name: <package-name>
     secrets:
     - name: <secret-name>