Why We Use CUE (and Not Helm)

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Jsonnet

Jsonnet promises to be JSON plus templating, and that's exactly what it delivers. It allows you to include other files and has many useful features such as variables and functions. Jsonnet overall was a pretty decent Experience, and we could've stopped there.

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Helm.sh

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. We like using it for third-party dependencies, but templating in Helm is not very good. It uses YAML, a whitespace-sensitive data language, and layers a generic text templating engine on top of it. Charts are typically full of boilerplate and indentation hacks.

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Dhall Configuration Language

Dhall is a functional configuration and programming language. Static typing and its purely functional nature are things we liked about Dhall, but for a configuration language, it can be comically verbose and difficult to read. The following YAML:.

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Cloudplane.org

Cloudplane is a managed hosting platform built on Kubernetes using our own resource templates. We evaluated several templating tools and eventually settled on CUE. Here's how we arrived at that conclusion.

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