kustomize/site/content/en/docs/Getting started/first_kustomization.md

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Creating Your First Kustomization	Creating Your First Kustomization	2022-02-27	20	A simple project example to get you familiar with the concepts

We're going to use kustomize to deploy an nginx instance into our Kubernetes cluster.

Creating the directory structure

Let's firt create a directory to store our kustomize project.

mkdir kustomize-nginx && cd kustomize-nginx

Create a base folder:

mkdir base

Inside this folder we will create two files:

• kustomization.yaml - the configuration file for kustomize
• deployment.yaml - the definition for our nginx deployment

kustomization.yaml

cat <<'EOF' >base/kustomization.yaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: kustomize-nginx

resources:
- deployment.yaml
EOF

The file defines the apiVersion, the kind and the resources it manages.

deployment.yaml

cat <<'EOF' >base/deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
EOF

TBC...