chant on Kubernetes

For a team that ships to Kubernetes: manifests and Helm charts from TypeScript, GitOps through Argo CD or Flux, and a local k3d cluster to try it on.

Works

• Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts from TypeScript, in the formats kubectl and helm read
• GitOps on-ramps for Argo CD (ArgoAppFor) and Flux CD (FluxGitSource, FluxAppFor)
• Drift reported against the composite argument and source line that set the field, with a k3d demo you can run

Differs

By forge

GitHub

• --generate github writes the pull-request workflow under .github/workflows/, run on pull_request and on push to the target branch.
• Both jobs use the job's own github.token. On a pull request from a fork that token is read-only, so the plan note and the status are not posted.

GitLab

• --generate gitlab writes .gitlab-ci.yml, and apply runs one at a time per environment through resource_group.
• A CI job token cannot write merge request notes, so set a project access token with the api scope as the masked variable CHANT_FORGE_TOKEN.

Forgejo

• --generate forgejo writes the GitHub workflow in the Forgejo dialect under .forgejo/workflows/: the runner label, action references by URL, and no permissions block.
• Forgejo workflows are GitHub-dialect, so chant audit applies its GitHub rules to them.

First step

npm install --save-dev @intentius/chant-lexicon-k8s
npx chant init my-infra --lexicon k8s

Drift Back to Source

Or hand this step to your coding agentIt stops at a pull request or a report.

Read https://intentius.io/chant/for/kubernetes/.
Set up chant with the k8s lexicon in this repository, and the helm lexicon as well if it holds Helm charts.
Install it with `npm install --save-dev @intentius/chant-lexicon-k8s`, run `npx chant init . --lexicon k8s`, and read every `skills/*/SKILL.md` it writes before you author anything.
Run `npx chant build` and `npx chant lint` until both pass, and open a pull request with the result. Apply manifests only to a local k3d cluster, and only when I ask.
Never deploy to a real cloud account or shared environment (with `chant run`, `chant components` or a platform's own CLI), approve (a pull request review, `chant approve` or `chant run approve`), override a policy denial (`chant approve policy-override`), or merge; never cut or publish a release (`chant release cut --yes` or `chant release publish`), push or delete a `ci/*` tag (`chant ci tick` pushes them), or change the value of an existing flag; never touch `.chant/allowed_signers` or `chant/lifecycle`.

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Read https://intentius.io/chant/for/kubernetes/.
Set up chant with the k8s lexicon in this repository, and the helm lexicon as well if it holds Helm charts.
Install it with `npm install --save-dev @intentius/chant-lexicon-k8s`, run `npx chant init . --lexicon k8s`, and read every `skills/*/SKILL.md` it writes before you author anything.
Run `npx chant build` and `npx chant lint` until both pass, and open a pull request with the result. Apply manifests only to a local k3d cluster, and only when I ask.
Never deploy to a real cloud account or shared environment (with `chant run`, `chant components` or a platform's own CLI), approve (a pull request review, `chant approve` or `chant run approve`), override a policy denial (`chant approve policy-override`), or merge; never cut or publish a release (`chant release cut --yes` or `chant release publish`), push or delete a `ci/*` tag (`chant ci tick` pushes them), or change the value of an existing flag; never touch `.chant/allowed_signers` or `chant/lifecycle`.

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Proof

Example projects in the chant repository for this room, each with a README that has the commands to run it. The last rows count the examples each lexicon ships, read from the repository when this site was built.

Example	Where
getting-started	examples/getting-started
k8s-drift-to-source	examples/k8s-drift-to-source
argo-cd-gke	examples/argo-cd-gke
flux-apps	examples/flux-apps
14 examples	lexicons/k8s/examples
9 examples	lexicons/helm/examples
1 example	lexicons/k3d/examples
1 example	lexicons/k3s/examples

Then read

Tasks

Drift Back to SourceArgo CD on GKEFlux CD Self-HostedAgent Observability on k3d

Background

Drift DetectionLifecycle Models

Reference

Kubernetes lexiconHelm Charts lexiconk3d lexicon