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jkcfg / jk

Configuration as Code with ECMAScript
https://jkcfg.github.io
Apache License 2.0
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Status of Project? #365

Open aaronmell opened 3 years ago

aaronmell commented 3 years ago

Not seeing much work being done lately. We have started to use the tool, but are considering switching if its no longer going to be maintained, before we get in too deep.

squaremo commented 3 years ago

Hi @aaronmell, thank you for pitching up and asking. Honest answer: I have not given up on the ideas here, and would like to spend more time on it, but for the foreseeable future I likely won't be able to. If you are looking to make a long term investment in tooling, rather than experimenting, this is a risky way to go right now. I would look at Deno (if a TypeScript runtime is what you're after), and perhaps CDK8s (if you need types for Kubernetes config).

dlespiau commented 3 years ago

I wholeheartedly agree with Michael. The ideas are sound and implemented to various degrees elsewhere. It would need a lot of energy to revive the momentum around jk. Thanks @squaremo for providing alternatives!

aaronmell commented 3 years ago

Really appreciate the response. What you built was really good. Just wish it had some legs :)

adnaan commented 3 years ago

We are still using jkcfg a lot at taxfix.de. It works beautifully for kubernetes config and also for other non-trivial use cases like generating gitlab ci yamls. Not ready to give up on this just yet 🙂

adnaan commented 3 years ago

What would it take to give it some legs ? IMO jkcfg is still the best approach for a generic configuration library out there.

aaronmell commented 3 years ago

The project is in a fairly usable state. As long as the kubernetes api could be kept up to date.

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squaremo commented 3 years ago

@adnaan Thank you for the supportive message <3

May I ask, which bits of jk are you using? And which bits would you like to use, but they don't work as well as you need them to?

adnaan commented 3 years ago

Everything works. And we use almost all of the available APIs. Except one thing: commonjs modules. Not being able to bundle commonjs modules has made us take some hacky paths. Rest of it just works.

Additionally we have done some work to generate grafana charts.

We have a library on top of jkcfg. It encodes our best practices and defaults.

adnaan commented 3 years ago

@squaremo Maybe I can help with some maintenance work ?

squaremo commented 3 years ago

@adnaan That's a kind offer :-) There is certainly upkeep to do -- e.g., I was looking at updating the Kubernetes schema definitions the other day and noticed that the upstream https://github.com/instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema has been abandoned, so that needs reworking. Can you email me at the address on my profile, please? Thank you!

adnaan commented 2 years ago

Hello ! Used some of my vacation time to work on porting jkcfg API to Deno: https://github.com/dxcfg/dxcfg.

Thank you. Have a nice day.