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Comment by turtlebits

3 days ago

Skaffold works but its DX is pretty poor. Too many knobs via yaml- tilt has just enough magic that it doesn't feel like a chore to setup local dev.

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cirego  3 days ago

I've always appreciated that Tilt chose Starlark instead of YAML. Makes things so much cleaner!

  • tomjakubowski  3 days ago

    Well, now you've really got me interested. Almost every case of a YAML eDSL would be better served by Starlark instead, in my Bazel-brained opinion.

    • cirego  3 days ago

      I think Tilt Extensions highlights the combined power and composability that using Starlarks brings to Tilt: https://docs.tilt.dev/extensions.html.

      Want to create a Kubernetes secret? It's as simple as:

          load('ext://secret', 'secret_yaml_generic')
    k8s_yaml(secret_yaml_generic(...))

      Want to create that secret from Vault instead?

          load('ext://vault_client', 'vault_read_secret', 'vault_set_env_vars')
    vault_set_env_vars('https://localhost:8200','mytoken')
    my_foo = vault_read_secret('path/myfoo', 'value')
    my_bar = vault_read_secret('path/mybar', 'foobar')