Awesome Declarative Apps¶

An awesome list of declarative applications, engines, and platforms.

Summary¶

Name	Type	Category	Title
terraform	Engine	Infrastructure As Code	Declarative Infrastructure And Provisioning Tool
kubernetes	Platform	Container Orchestration	Container Orchestration
ferret	Application	Web Scraping	Web Scraper
mkdocs	Application	Website Generator	Static Website Generator
reagent	Application	Testing	API Validation
editly	Application	Multimedia	Create A Video From A Set Of Clips, Images, Audio And Titles, With Smooth Transitions And Music Overlaid.
topicctl	Application	Kafka	Declarative Kafka Topic Management
ignition	Application	OS Runtime Configuration	OS Runtime Configuration
Cuelang	Engine	Configuration Runtime	Configure, Unify, Execute
cabourotte	Application	Monitoring	Declarative Infrastructure Health Checks

Type - Engine¶

terraform¶

Category: infrastructure as code

Url: https://www.terraform.io/

Description: Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

Cuelang¶

Category: Configuration Runtime

Url: https://cuelang.org

Description: Configure, unify, execute

Type - Platform¶

kubernetes¶

Category: container orchestration

Url: https://kubernetes.io/

Description: Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Examples

Example 0 - Basic Deployment A replica set of 3 pods will be deployed to Kubernetes. Each pod will run the nginx:1.7.9 container image exposing port 80 and be labeled with `app:nginx` for use in service abstraction.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx-deployment
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx:1.7.9
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

Type - Application¶

ferret¶

Category: web scraping

Url: https://github.com/MontFerret/ferret

Description: ferret is a web scraping system. It aims to simplify data extraction from the web for UI testing, machine learning, analytics and more. ferret allows users to focus on the data. It abstracts away the technical details and complexity of underlying technologies using its own declarative language. It is extremely portable, extensible, and fast.

mkdocs¶

Category: website generator

Url: https://www.mkdocs.org/

Description: MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that’s geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.

reagent¶

Category: Testing

Url: https://github.com/whytheplatypus/reagent

Description: A cli and library for declaring what how an API is expected to behave and checking that hypothesis.

editly¶

Category: Multimedia

Url: https://github.com/mifi/editly

Description: Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. Editly allows you to easily and programmatically create a video from a set of clips, images, audio and titles, with smooth transitions and music overlaid. Editly has a simple CLI for quickly assembling a video from a set of clips or images, or you can use its more flexible JavaScript API.

topicctl¶

Category: Kafka

Url: https://github.com/segmentio/topicctl

Description: A tool for easy, declarative management of Kafka topics. Includes the ability to “apply” topic changes from YAML as well as a repl for interactive exploration of brokers, topics, consumer groups, messages, and more.

ignition¶

Category: OS Runtime Configuration

Url: https://github.com/kinvolk/ignition

Description: Ignition is a low-level system configuration utility. The Ignition executable is part of the temporary initial root filesystem, the initramfs. When Ignition runs, it finds configuration data in a named location for a given environment, such as a file or URL, and applies it to the machine before switch_root is called to pivot to the machine’s root filesystem. Ignition uses a JSON configuration file to represent the set of changes to be made.

cabourotte¶

Category: Monitoring

Url: https://github.com/mcorbin/cabourotte

Description: Cabourotte is a tool which allow you to execute healthchecks (HTTP(s), TCP, DNS, TLS) on your infrastructure.