Project Carvel: Composable Tools for Application Management
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 23/03/2024

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Project Carvel: Composable Tools for Application Management - Daniel Garnier-Moiroux & Soumik Majumder, Broadcom

If you are using Kubernetes in production, you probably already have tooling in place to configure and manage your applications. Helm is an obvious example. Most of the tools are either very focused, like Kustomize, or very broad, like Helm. They are not always designed to work together, and sometimes you've had to write some batch scripts to stitch them together. Enter Carvel, a CNCF Sandbox project since September 2022. It tackles the application development lifecycle following the Unix philosophy: Carvel is a suite of seven single-purpose, composable tools, from yaml templating to a GitOps controller. They may be adopted individually to enhance your existing workflows, or combined for an end-to-end solution. In this session, with the help of a few slides and some live-coding, we will explore the Carvel portfolio by creating and deploying an application. After this talk, there is a very high chance you will want to try at least one of the tools!