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How it works?
Kustomize is a Kubernetes-native configuration customization tool that helps platform and DevOps teams manage application manifests across multiple environments without duplicating YAML. It uses a base-and-overlay approach so shared resources stay consistent while environment-specific changes (for example, image tags, replicas, or ingress settings) are applied cleanly for development, staging, and production clusters.
Kustomize is commonly used in Git-based workflows and CI/CD or GitOps pipelines, where overlays are reviewed in version control and rendered into final manifests before being applied. It is also available via kubectl, which simplifies adoption alongside existing Kubernetes tooling.
- Base/overlay structure for environment and cluster customization
- Patch resources using strategic merge or JSON 6902 patches
- Generate ConfigMaps and Secrets from files or literals
- Apply consistent labels, annotations, and name prefixes/suffixes
- Compose reusable components to standardize configuration patterns
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools:
- Improve the utilization of CPU, memory, and storage usage by running many processes on a single machine
- Manage the entire lifecycle of the orchestrated workloads: pre & post initialization & termination
- Control the scale of workloads and the scale of their underlying infrastructure separately
- Centralized management of workloads and infrastructure
Kustomize is a Kubernetes-native configuration customization tool that layers environment-specific changes on top of shared base manifests. It is used to keep deployments consistent across clusters and stages without maintaining separate copies of YAML.
- Overlays enable per-environment differences like replicas, image tags, and resource limits while reusing a common base.
- Patch-based changes reduce YAML duplication by modifying only the fields that differ, improving maintainability.
- Native integration with kubectl simplifies workflows since Kustomize functionality is built into Kubernetes tooling.
- Deterministic manifest generation produces predictable output for review, testing, and promotion between environments.
- Supports common transformations like name prefixes/suffixes, labels, annotations, and namespace assignment at build time.
- ConfigMap and Secret generators can derive resources from files and literals, with optional hash suffixes to trigger rollouts.
- Image transformations standardize registry, repository, and tag updates without editing multiple manifests.
- Component reuse allows shared sets of patches and resources to be applied across multiple applications or overlays.
- Fits GitOps patterns by keeping configuration declarative and reviewable, aligning well with version-controlled change management.
Kustomize works best when teams want to stay close to raw Kubernetes YAML and avoid templating, but it is less suited to complex conditional logic or large-scale packaging needs. For highly parameterized deployments or richer chart ecosystems, alternatives may be a better fit.
Common alternatives include Helm and Jsonnet, as well as GitOps-oriented tooling like Argo CD and Flux that can apply Kustomize outputs in deployment pipelines.
Our experience with Kustomize helped us build repeatable patterns and supporting tooling for managing Kubernetes configuration safely across environments, clusters, and teams. We used it to reduce drift, standardize rollouts, and keep application and platform changes auditable without duplicating manifests.
Some of the things we did include:
- Designed base/overlay structures for dev/stage/prod and multi-cluster deployments, with clear ownership boundaries for application and platform teams.
- Implemented Kustomize components and patch strategies (strategic merge and JSON patches) to standardize labels, annotations, resource requests/limits, and securityContext defaults.
- Integrated Kustomize builds into GitOps workflows with Argo CD to enforce environment promotion and reduce manual kubectl changes.
- Embedded Kustomize into CI pipelines and deployment automation with GitHub Actions, including validation gates and dry-run checks.
- Built shared “platform overlays” for ingress, certificates, and DNS patterns, aligning with cluster add-ons such as cert-manager and common ingress controllers.
- Standardized secret and config handling by combining Kustomize generators with external secret workflows, minimizing plaintext exposure and improving rotation practices.
- Created conventions for namespace and RBAC overlays to support least-privilege access and safer multi-tenant clusters.
- Implemented environment-specific observability patches (metrics, logging, and tracing endpoints) so teams could enable instrumentation consistently without forking manifests.
- Refactored legacy Helm-rendered YAML into Kustomize-managed manifests where it improved maintainability, and documented decision criteria for when to use each approach.
- Trained engineering teams on day-to-day Kustomize workflows (review practices, overlay debugging, and rollout safety) and provided runbooks for ongoing support.
This experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across multi-environment delivery, GitOps operations, and platform standardization, enabling us to deliver high-quality Kustomize setups that are maintainable, secure, and easy to evolve as workloads grow.
Some of the things we can help you do with Kustomize include:
- Assess your current Kubernetes configuration management and deliver a findings report with prioritized remediation recommendations.
- Create a pragmatic Kustomize adoption roadmap for multi-environment, multi-cluster deployments aligned to your release and governance needs.
- Implement and standardize bases/overlays, patches, and generators to reduce drift and simplify environment-specific configuration.
- Integrate Kustomize into CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD) for repeatable, auditable deployments.
- Establish security and compliance guardrails (RBAC, namespaces, policy checks, secret handling patterns) to prevent misconfigurations before they ship.
- Optimize manifests for reliability and performance (requests/limits, probes, rollout strategies) and reduce operational overhead across workloads.
- Improve cost efficiency by standardizing resource profiles and right-sizing configurations across environments and teams.
- Troubleshoot Kustomize build/apply issues, overlay conflicts, and deployment failures to restore delivery velocity.
- Enable your teams with hands-on training, reference examples, and internal documentation to scale consistent usage.
