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adeploy has useful features that can be used in both, Helm chart templates and Jinja deployment templates.

Secrets

adeploy can create secrets for you in various ways:

  • Retrieve secrets from the supported secret Sources like gopass or shell commands
  • Retrieve or auto-generate (rotate) arbitrary secrets using bash commands

Since adeploy will create non-existing secrets but won't touch existing secrets1, a very simple but effective concept of secret management can be established and adeploy can be used to automate everything while excluding secret handling in CI/CD pipelines.

Includes

adeploy brings support to include and optionally render YAML parts or arbitrary files into k8s manifests.

This allows you to define repeating YAML parts (i.e. environments, affinities) at a single place and include them into all relevant manifest files.

Further it is now possible to add all files from a directory i.e. into a ConfigMap in order to create config files in your deployment.

Manage Labels

adeploy provides functions and mechanisms to create default and custom labels following best practises in a single place of your default or namespace/release configuration.

Resource Limits

For larger deployments it is sometimes hard to keep track of the defined resource limits. For example a deployment for a distributed system having lots of similar workloads are suitable for a global definition of resource limits. adeploy does support such a global definition at a single point in your default or namespace/release configuration.

Probes

Next to labels and resources, adeploy also allows to update liveness, readiness and startup probes on a global or workload scope at a single point in the default or namespace/release configuration.

Jinja Helpers

Next to the features from above, you can use the complete Jinja templating support when creating Jinja deployment or Helm chart templates using adeploy. Please see the official Jinja documentation for details.

Next to the full Jinja templating support, we've added some very useful functions and filters that can be used when creating Jinja deployment or Helm chart templates using adeploy:

  1. If --recreate-secrets is specified, adeploy is forced to re-create also existing secrets. This is useful to update secrets or rotate auto-generated secrets. ↩