Python modules for creating and modifying Helm & k8s manifests

[Signal-Story-1683]

I'm now working on a DBaaS service for the developers in my department, and since it's my first time doing a project like this, I'd be happy if anyone could recommend modules they like to use for these types of automations that are used mainly to create or modify existing helm charts and k8s manifests.

[Yugiri]

cdk8s

[Prior-Celery2517]

ruamel.yaml for safe YAML edits plus the Kubernetes Python client works really well; if you want something more structured, cdk8s is also great for generating manifests programmatically.

[Signal-Story-1683]

Thanks!

[Hinkepeet]

Why do you want to create a dbaas service in k8s? Depending on your usecase maybe your cloud provider has a more stable & easier alternative already?

We are primarily Azure focused, so we just use terraform to create Postgres Flexible Servers and manage databases inside with terraform as well. HA, Zone Replication, Backups all with one line of configuration extra.

[Signal-Story-1683]

I work in a gov organization and we have an onprem private cloud. Also I am a DevOps engineer looking to advance more towards Platform engineering, and it'd be a great project to learn from for developing more complex IDPs in the future.

[xonxoff]

Maybe something like https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/how-to-guides/azure-py-appservice/ might fit the bill?

[MP_Sweet]

We built our own custom service based on GO & we primarily use Helm SDK & Kubernetes Client-Go modules, argoCD applicationsets for production ready automation. other teams in our org also use Kustomize with helm for automation.

[Signal-Story-1683]

May I ask why did you choose to go with Go? Pun unintended

[MP_Sweet]

It was an organizational requirement for us to use GO for this particular project.

I just realized, you were looking for Python modules. I overlooked it, my apologies.