# v2.1.0 | Kustomize
Kustomize v2.1.0

v2.1.0 | Kustomize
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# v2.1.0

Kustomize v2.1.0
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Go modules, resource ordering respected, generator and transformer plugins, eased loading restrictions, the notion of inventory, eased replica count modification. About ~90 issues closed since v2.0.3 in ~400 commits.

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## Go modules

Kustomize now defines its dependencies in a top level `go.mod` file. This is the first step towards a package structure intentially exported as one or more Go modules for use in other programs (kubectl, kubebuilder, etc.) and in kustomize plugins (see below).

## Resource ordering

Kustomize now retains the depth-first order of resources as read, a frequently requested feature.

This means resource order can be controlled by editting kustomization files. This is also vital to applying user-defined transformations (plugins) in a particular order.

Nothing needs to be done to activate this; it happens automatically.

The `build` command now accepts a `--reorder` flag with values `legacy` and `none`, with a default value of `legacy`.

`legacy` means apply an ordering based on GVK, that currently emits `Namespace` objects first, and `ValidatingWebhookConfiguration` objects last. This means that despite automatic retention of load order, your `build` output won’t change by default.

`none` means don’t reorder the resources before output. Specify this to see output order respect input order.

## Generator and transformer plugins

Since the beginning (as `kinflate` back in Sep 2017), kustomize has read or generated resources, applied a series of pipelined transformation to them, and emitted the result to `stdout`.

At that time, the only way to change the behavior of a generator (e.g. a secret generator), or change the behavior of a transformer (e.g. a name changer, or json patcher), was to modify source code and put out a release.

v1.0.9 introduced generator options as a means to change the behavior of the only two generators available at the time - Secret and ConfigMap generators. It also introduced transformer configs as a way to fine tune the targets of transformations (e.g. to which fields selectors should be added). Most of the feature requests for kustomize revolve around changing the behavior of the builtin generators and transformers.

v2.1.0 adds an alpha plugin framework, that encourages users to write their own generators or transformers, declaring them as kubernetes objects just like everything else, and apply them as part of the `kustomize build` process.

To inform the API exposed to plugins, and to confirm that the plugin framework can offer plugin authors the same capabilities as builtin operations, all the builtin generators and tranformers have been converted to plugin form (with one exceptions awaiting Go module refinements). This means that adding, say, a `secretGenerator` or `commonAnnotations` directive to your kustomization will (in v2.1.0) trigger execution of code committed as a plugin.

For more information, see the kustomize plugin documentation.

## Remove load restrictions

The following usage:

    kustomize build --load_restrictor none $target

allows a `kustomization.yaml` file used in this build to refer to files outside its own directory (i.e. outside its root).

This is an opt-in to suppress a security feature that denies this precise behavior.

This feature should only be used to allow multiple overlays (e.g. prod, staging and dev) to share a patch file. To share resources, use a relative path or URL to a kustomization directory in the `resources` directive.

## Inventory generation for pruning

Alpha

Users can add an `inventory` stanza to their kustomization file, to add a special inventory object to the `build` result.

This object applies to the cluster along with everything else in the build result and can be used by other clients to intelligently prune orphaned cluster resources.

For more information see the kustomize inventory object documentation.

## Field changes / deprecations

### `resources` expanded, `bases` deprecated

The `resources` field has been generalized; it now accepts what formerly could only be specified in the `bases` field.

This change was made to allow users fine control over resource processing order. With a distinct `bases` field, bases had to be loaded separately from resources as a group. Now, base loading may be interleaved as desired with the loading of resource files from the current directory. Resource ordering had to be respected before this feature could be introduced.

The `bases` field is now deprecated, and will be deleted in some future major release. Manage the deprecation simply moving the arguments of the `bases` field to the `resources` field in the desired order, e.g.

>     resources:
>     - someResouceFile.yaml
>     - someOtherResourceFile.yaml
>     bases:
>     - ../../someBaseDir

could become

>     resources:
>     - someResouceFile.yaml
>     - ../../someBaseDir
>     - someOtherResourceFile.yaml

The `kustomized edit fix` command will do this for you, though it will always put the bases at the end.

As an aside, the `resources`, `generators` and `transformers` fields now all accept the same argument format.

> Each field’s argument is a string list, where each entry is either a resource (a relative path to a YAML file) or a kustomization (a path or URL pointing to a directory with a kustomization file). A kustomization directory used in this context is called a base.

The fact that the `generators` and `transformers` field accept bases and the fact that generator and transformer configuration objects are just normal k8s resources means that one can generate or transform a generator or a transformer (see TestTransformerTransformers).

### `replicas` field

The common task of patching a deployment to edit the number of replicas is now made easier with the new replicas field.

### `envs` field

An `envs` sub-field has been added to both `configMapGenerator` and `secretGenerator`, replacing the now deprecated (and singular) `env` field. The new field accepts lists, just like its sibling fields `files` and `literals`.

Optionally use `kustomize edit fix` to merge singular `env` field into a plural field.

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