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Kubernetes Kustomization Overlay

A Kustomize overlay with a name prefix and suffix, common labels, an image tag override, a configMapGenerator merge, and a JSON-6902 patch embedded as a block scalar — YAML inside YAML, which naive rewriters mangle.

Preview — first 39 linesyaml
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization

namespace: example-apps
namePrefix: prod-
nameSuffix: -v2

commonLabels:
  app.kubernetes.io/instance: prod
  app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: kustomize

resources:
  - ../../base
  - networkpolicy.yaml

patches:
  - target:
      kind: Deployment
      name: orders
    patch: |
      - op: replace
        path: /spec/replicas
        value: 6
      - op: add
        path: /spec/template/spec/containers/0/env/-
        value:
          name: TIER
          value: prod

configMapGenerator:
  - name: orders-config
    behavior: merge
    literals:
      - LOG_LEVEL=warn

images:
  - name: registry.example.invalid/example-org/orders
    newTag: 1.4.0

Specifications

Kind
Kustomization
Resources
2
Patches
1
Patch Ops
2
Image Overrides
1
Has Embedded Patch Scalar
true

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Apply a Kustomize overlay whose patch is embedded as a YAML block scalar
Expected result
The embedded patch parses as two JSON-6902 operations and the replica count for the orders Deployment becomes 6

What is a .yaml file?

YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data-serialization format using indentation, key-value pairs, and lists, and is a superset of JSON. It supports comments, anchors, and multiple documents per file, favoring readability for configuration. Its indentation sensitivity makes it error-prone to hand-edit.

How to use this file

Use an example YAML file to test config parsers, indentation and anchor handling, multi-document streams, and safe-loading to avoid arbitrary object construction.

How to use this file for testing

“Kubernetes Kustomization Overlay” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Config testing, Config parsing, Editor testing. TOML, INI, YAML, .env, and dotfile configuration samples with nested sections and typed values — for testing config parsers, loaders, and environment tooling.

Documented properties for this file: YAML · 718 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Pipeline and infrastructure fixtures are inert configuration: steps reference fictional images and scripts, and nothing here executes. Run your linter, schema validator, migrator, or policy engine against them, and expect the deprecated-syntax and intentionally invalid variants to be rejected.

Point your config loader at the file and assert it reads the documented sections and typed values, including any deliberately-tricky nesting or comments.

Code examples

import yaml  # pip install pyyaml

with open("kustomization.yaml") as f:
    data = yaml.safe_load(f)
print(data)

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