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Version: 13.x (Current)

mlp CLI

mlpis a Command Line Interface that is responsible for creating, updating and deleting Kubernetes resources based on files generated by Mia-Platform Console.
It can be viewed as a superpowered kubectl apply command that introduce additional functionalities to simply sending patches to the api-server.

mlp can prune resources that are not present anymore between different deploys because it keeps an inventory of all the resources that has applied the last time.
It can force new deployment rollout even if there are no differences between deploys, running Jobs immediately from CronJob definitions, and it will add annotations to workload resources about their Secrets and ConfigMaps dependencies.
The cli will also automatically watch the progression of the applied resources and it will report what and how many resources failed to reach a ready or successfull state.

In addition mlp can also generate ConfigMaps or Secrets via a dedicate configuration file using a combination of environment variabiles, literal values and files, giving the user the ability to not commiting sensitive data and giving the ability to use different configuration for different runtime environments.

Functionalities​

  • deploy: the main command, is used for creating, updating and pruning resources in a kubernetes environment using the resource files created by the Mia-Platform Console
  • generate: create kubernetes ConfigMap and Secret based on a configuration file
  • hydrate: is an helper function for configuring correctly the kustomization files inside the target folder with all the files and patches found
  • interpolate: will run through all the files passed and run through a templating function for render the final manifests
  • kustomize: is the same command of kustomize build and can be used if you project is using the kustomize structure to render the resources to pass to the interpolate command

For more information about the various options available to the various commands you can always run mlp <command> --help to see the helpers.

Guides​

Below, you can find additional documentation for mlp: