Curious about GitRepositories per app

[mnarrell]

I'm interested in your thoughts around having a GitRepository for each of the applications you're deploying. I realize that certain standalone manifests might not support dependencies, but are there other advantages than having a single GitRepository and apps enabled with Kustomizations and HelmReleases?

[onedr0p]

Having a GitRepo resource for each of the things in the same repo on the same branch seems to me to be very inefficient. Personally I don't think that would be a good idea, but what make you think about this? Are you trying to solve a problem?

[mnarrell]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding. My question is about resources like this: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template/blob/main/kubernetes/apps/cert-manager/cert-manager/ks.yaml#L11

Is there a reason or preference to using this, over just a kustomization file pointing to a HelmRelease and the issuers manifests?

[onedr0p]

Ah you said GitRepository not Flux Kustomizations. This is done to have proper resource ordering since you cannot deploy a cert-manager ClusterIssuer without the CRDs installed first.

[mnarrell]

Thanks