Kapitan Tutorial: How to install Kapitan?

Install Kapitan in Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python3.8-dev python3-pip python3-yaml
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade kapitan

# kapitan will be installed in $HOME/.local/lib/python3.7/bin

#not recommended

$ sudo pip3 install --upgrade kapitan

Install Kapitan using Docker Container

# Linux
$ alias kapitan="docker run -t --rm -u $(id -u) -v $(pwd):/src:delegated kapicorp/kapitan"
$ kapitan -h

# Mac
$ alias kapitan="docker run -t --rm -v $(pwd):/src:delegated kapicorp/kapitan"
$ kapitan -h

Create Kapitan Project from Scratch

If you want to start off with a clean kapitan project, you can run kapitan init --directory <directory> to populate a new directory with the recommended kapitan folder structure.

The bare minimum structure that makes use of kapitan features may look as follows:

$ kapitan init –directory <directory>

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