[FAQ] best approach to decide a kcl file/path to include

[wilsonwang371]

General Question

What is the best approach to use a runtime variable to decide which file in a directory to include?

For example, I have dev.k prod.k in a directory. I want to include one of them when run kcl build. What is the best approach to do this? The dev.k is for dev environment and prod.k is for production environment.

[Peefy]

Thank you for your question.

I think there are two ways to use it here:

• One way is to use different file directories to organize decisions based on different compilation entries, such as kcl main.k dev.k or kcl main.k prod.k
• The second method is to use dynamic parameters kcl main.k -D env=prod or kcl main.k -D env=dev

However, my personal suggestion is to choose the former as the best practice for tools such as Helm and Kustomize in GitOps.