Overview

What is Porch

Porch is a specialization and orchestration tool for managing distributed systems. It helps GitOps engineers, developers, integrators and telecom operators to manage complex systems in a cloud native environment. Porch runs kpt at a scale for package specialization. It provides collaboration and governance enablers and integration with GitOps for the packages.

Introduction to Packages in Porch

A Porch package refers to a kpt package.

As a matter of fact there is no such thing as a “Porch” package but rather Porch utilizes kpt packages which are a structured collection of Kubernetes YAML resources along with a Kptfile which is managed via Porch’s package orchestration mechanisms.

What is kpt?

Kpt is an open source tool started by Google to manage Kubernetes “Configuration as Data” to simplify management of Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)-driven infrastructure at scale using standard YAML and Git.

What is a kpt package?

A kpt package is a bundle of configuration data. More about the concept in the kpt documentation.

Relationship with KRM

[WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP WITH KRM]

Porch pkg untainted by telco

[WE CAN ADD SOME EXAMPLE KPT PKG UNTAINTED BY TELCO].

https://www.est.tech/news/kptreboot/