Stripe open sources ‘Skycfg’, a configuration builder for Kubernetes

Benefits of Skycfg

1. Skycfg ensures Type safety. It uses ‘Protobuf’  which has a statically-typed data model, and the type of every field is known to Skycfg when it's building a configuration. Users are free from the risk of accidentally assigning a string to a number, a struct to a different struct, or forgetting to quote a YAML value.
   
2. Users can reduce duplicated typing and share logic by defining helper functions.
   
3. Starlark supports importing modules from other files. This can be used to share common code between configurations. These modules can protect service owners from complex Kubernetes logic.
   
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4. Skycfg supports limited dynamic behavior through the use of context variables, which let the Go caller pass arbitrary key:value pairs in the ctx parameter.
   
5. Skycfg simplifies the configuration of Kubernetes services, Envoy routes, Terraform resources, and other complex configuration data.

Here is what users are saying about Skycfg over at HackerNews:





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