Today, we’ll talk about some deployment tools in the Kubernetes world. We’ll talk a little bit about why tools are used on top of kubectl. We’ll compare 3 different tools in the Kubernetes world focused on the deployment side of things: Kustomize, Helm, and Kubes. Then we’ll elaborate on the features that Kubes offers.

Kubes is a deployment tool that makes it easier and more fun to work with Kubernetes. Kubes automates 3 main steps. Build a Docker image. Create the YAML files that declare the Kubernetes resources. Run kubectl apply to create the resources on the cluster. It boils everything down to one single command: kubes deploy