Cuebe introduction

[b4nst]

Hello there 👋 .

I just stumble upon this repository. I'm the main maintainer of cuebe and looking at timoni doc it seems both our tools are targeting the same goal. I'm not eager to bloat the ecosystem with multiple solutions achieving the same result. What would you say about joining forces? I'm totally okay using this repo as it seems to have more attraction than ours.

At Loft Orbital we're starting to adopt CUE as our main way of deploying k8s resources. At first sight the only thing missing from timoni that would allow us to use it as a drop in replacement are:

• sops integration. Probably as an addition to Values from yaml and json files #51
• Module vendoring and auto generation. Modules cue-lang/cue#2044 discussion in CUE sounds like it's gonna take some time to be part of the native ecosystem, and we really needed a way to split our code base.

I'm eager to propose some PR if that would be something you're willing to introduce into timoni.

[stefanprodan]

Hey @b4nst thanks a lot for reaching out. Are you attending KubeCon next week by any chance? If so we could meet and discuss there, I'll be at the FluxCD booth every day. I'm also available on CNCF Slack @stefanprodan.

For the SOPS integration I was looking at @phoban01 PoC here https://github.com/phoban01/cue-sops. Not sure if @phoban01 would want to bring cue-sops into Timoni's source code. I'm opened to other suggestions on how to make the SOPS integration available in Timoni.

For CUE vendoring I was hopping this would be solve upstream, but I agree that if this is delayed more, we should offer it ourselves. Having something like timoni.mod and timoni.sum and corresponding commands to vendor dependencies would be great, once upstreams offers this, we could deprecate our implementation. I see that cuebe comes with mod vendoring, but I'll need some time to understand how this would fit with Timoni's OCI artifacts and module distribution.

[b4nst]

Nah can't make it to the KubeCon this year 😞. I'm also available on CNCF (@banst).

@phoban01 PoC looks definitely interesting, I like the use of annotation. It looks like our @inject system in cuebe.

Same for CUE vendoring, I would rather use the native system directly. I know they want to bring up the topic today during cue-lang/cue#2326. Depending the discussion I can start proposing something here as a temporary solution.

[phoban01]

I think it would be nice to have SOPS support as a part of Timoni; I'll put together a proposal based on what I did in cue-sops.

[b4nst]

Closing this one as #74 is here to track the encryption. We already started our transition from cuebe to timoni, so far so good.
I'll soon archive cuebe and put a reference to redirect to timoni.