infra-kustomize-environment-management

What problem does it solve?

Manage environment-specific Kubernetes differences without turning YAML into fragile templates, enabling declarative, reviewable, and patch-based overlays that remain maintainable across environments.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Base and overlay composition: Keep shared resources in a base and apply environment-specific changes via overlays and patches to avoid drift.
• Patch strategies & image overrides: Use strategic merge, JSON 6902, or replacement patches and images field overrides to control replicas, tags, and repository names per environment.
• Validation and safe deploys: Render overlays, run dry-runs and diffs, and document validation commands in the story for safe review and deployment.
• Use case: Apply a dev overlay that reduces replica counts, sets debug config, and updates image tags while preserving a single reusable base.

Quick Start

Use the infra-kustomize-environment-management skill to render the dev overlay, validate the effective manifest, and record the kustomization changes for the story.