Each solution is the root of the next problem – Gerald M. Weinberg

I’ve been using Jsonnet for several years, and I think it would be good to summarize my experiences so far.

The good

The best thing about Jsonnet is that it’s a superset of JSON. As a data templating language for generating JSON, it provides many features of programming languages (variables, functions, arithmetic operations, conditionals). Since it can generate JSON, it can also generate YAML, which is why I use it with tanka to create Kubernetes manifests.

Kubernetes upgrades (especially EKS) are categorized into two types based on the Kubernetes architecture:

• Control plane upgrade (+ etcd)
• Node upgrade

Particularly when using cloud-managed Kubernetes like EKS, since AWS manages the control plane, you’ll mostly handle node upgrades directly (if you’re not using managed nodegroups).