Cloudplane.org VS Jsonnet

I do think masto.host is a great host, but if you can afford a bit more, I can throw my hat in the ring: Cloudplane. Our pricing model is based on usage, so you'll never have to upgrade you base plan just to upload more media. We run daily backups and also have an option to export your data to your own s3 bucket on a schedule (currently in beta and free, but there may be a small charge per export in the future). Source: 12 months ago

I’m on https://cloudplane.org/ with an instance of three users (mostly just me tbh) and I pay about $16 per month. I’ve been pretty happy with the performance and support. Source: 12 months ago

If you lack the server administration skills, there are also fully managed hosting providers. masto.host is a popular option starting at $6, my service Cloudplane starts at €12. Source: about 1 year ago

We are on that list and we accept new users :) https://cloudplane.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

I got started with Cloud Plane this weekend. So far, so good. Source: over 1 year ago

Jsonnet[1] and kapitan[2] are the tools I currently use. Their learning curve is not optimal (and I tried to contribute to smoothen it with a jsonnet course[3] and a 'get started wit kapitan' blog post[4]), but once used to it it's hard to do without, and their combination makes them even more useful (esp. If you deploy K8s). In Ruud's case, Jsonnet might have been worth looking at as Hashicorp tools can be... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Kubernetes config is a decent example. I had ChatGPT generate a representative silly example -- the content doesn't matter so much as the structure: https://gist.github.com/cstrahan/528b00cd5c3a22e3d8f057bb1a75ea61 Now consider 100s (if not 1000s) of such files. I haven't given Pkl an in depth look yet, but I can say that the Industry Standard™ of "simple YAML" + string substitution (with delicate, error prone... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Maybe you'd like jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/ I find it particularly useful for configurations that often have repeated boilerplate, like ansible playbooks or deploying a bunch of "similar-but" services to kubernetes (with https://tanka.dev). Dhall is also quite interesting, with some tradeoffs: https://dhall-lang.org/ A few years ago I did a small comparison by re-implementing one of my simpler ansible... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Apologies for the lack of context, and for missing this comment until today. Both are tools for defining kubernetes manifests (which are YAML) in a reusable manner. Jsonnet is a formally specified extension of JSON. It’s essentially a functional programming language (w/some object oriented features) that generates config files in JSON/YAML/etc, so it’s straightforward to determine whether an input file is valid,... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I like Google's Jsonnet [1], which has all of this except for 4. Jsonnet is quite mature, with fairly wide language adoption, and has the benefit of supporting expressions, including conditionals, arithmetic, as well as being able to define reusable blocks inside function definitions or external files. It's not suitable as a serialization format, but great for config. It's popular in some circles, but I'm sad that... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago