Kapitan Generators

What are Generators

Kapitan generators are a powerful addon to Kapitan to simplify the management your configuration setup.

Think of them like "Universal Templates" that you can use to quickly create configurations (for instance, Kubernetes resources) through a Domain-Specific configuration.

For example, the configuration:

parameters:
  components:
    nginx:
      image: nginx

Instructs the "Kubernetes Generator" to create a Deployment kubernete resoures for nginx. The configuration can be extended to include Secrets, Config Maps, Services, env variables, ports and more.

The same configuration can be used by a "Documentation Generator" to create a nginx.md file with a description of the configuration to be consumed as documentation.