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Loading Kustomize

Kosko supports loading manifests from Kustomize files. You have to install either kustomize or kubectl CLI before using this package.

@kosko/kustomize uses the kustomize build command to generate Kubernetes manifests. Most options of kustomize build command are supported. See API documentation for available options.

Under the hood, @kosko/kustomize uses @kosko/yaml to load YAML, which means the loadKustomize function supports all options of the loadString function. See loading Kubernetes YAML for more details.

Install​

npm install @kosko/kustomize @kosko/yaml

Load from a local directory​

Load Kubernetes manifests from a local directory which contains a kustomization.yaml file. For example, you can use __dirname to load manifests from the current directory.

import { loadKustomize } from "@kosko/kustomize";

loadKustomize({
  path: "./dir"
});

Load from a URL​

You can also load manifests from a URL. See Kustomize docs for supported URL formats.

import { loadKustomize } from "@kosko/kustomize";

loadKustomize({
  path: "github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/examples/multibases?ref=v1.0.6"
});

Specify the Build Command​

By default, loadKustomize function uses kustomize build command to generate Kubernetes manifests, and fallbacks to kubectl kustomize command if kustomize CLI is not installed.

You can also customize the build command with the buildCommand option if kustomize or kubectl is not present in your PATH.

import { loadKustomize } from "@kosko/kustomize";

loadKustomize({
  path: "./dir",
  buildCommand: ["./path/to/kustomize", "build"]
});