How would I update a single container of a Pod defined in a different module?

[felixscheinost]

I am importing a DaemonSet from a Helm chart. As spec.template.containers is a list of submodules I think I can't update a container defined in a separate module, right? The same is true for basic Pod of course.

If the kubernetes.api.pods were defined manually and not imported from the schema JSON, it would probably be better for composability if spec.containers were attrsOf string to submodule, right?

So I could say e.g. spec.containers.<name of container>.ports = [<some modification>].

Have you thought about this already? Could we find a way to make this happen? So that in Nix containers is an attrSet which gets converted into a flat list of values on serialization?

[felixscheinost]

Sorry, answered my own question 😅

Actually it already is implemented that way! (coerceAttrsOfSubmodulesToListByKey)

So I could write containers."<name>".ports = ....

[hall]

For future travelers, I've added a section to the docs which declares this functionality: https://kubenix.org/examples/helm/#patching