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Getting Started with Jsonnet

For some, YAML is quite cumbersome to work with and forces you to duplicate a lot of code in your manifests. If you want a more powerful alternative to YAML, we recommend using Jsonnet.

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Jsonnet - The Data Templating Language

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Template​

A template for creating Kubernetes manifests is available in the repo app-template-libsonnet.

Structure​

It is good practice to have all your application manifests in a common repository. Here is a recommended directory structure for your Jsonnet files.

team-kubernetes-manifests ├── apps # Put all your k8s applications under /apps │ ├── myApp1 # 1 folder pr. application │ │ ├── test # 1 folder pr. environment │ │ │ ├── app.jsonnet │ │ │ └── params.json │ │ ├── dev │ │ │ ├── app.jsonnet │ │ │ └── params.json │ │ ├── common.jsonnet │ │ └── README.md # In README put the link to source repo │ ├── myApp2 │ │ ├── test │ │ │ ├── app.jsonnet │ │ │ └── params.json │ │ ├── prod │ │ │ ├── app.jsonnet │ │ │ └── params.json │ │ ├── common.jsonnet │ │ └── README.md └───├...

Examples​

Production ready Jsonnet examples can be found in these repositories: