# kapitan
**Repository Path**: mirrors_deepmind/kapitan
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: kapitan
- **Description**: Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-01-05
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-05
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
# Kapitan: advanced configuration management tool
[](https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan/actions/workflows/test-build-publish.yml)



[](https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan/releases)
[](https://hub.docker.com/r/kapicorp/kapitan)
**`Kapitan`** aims to be your *one-stop tool* to help you manage the ever growing complexity of your configurations.
Join the community [`#kapitan`](https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C981W2HD3)
## [**Official site**](https://kapitan.dev)
## [**Quick Start**](https://kapitan.dev/getting_started/#quickstart)
## Install Kapitan
### Docker (recommended)
```shell
docker run -t --rm -v $(pwd):/src:delegated kapicorp/kapitan -h
```
On Linux you can add `-u $(id -u)` to `docker run` to preserve file permissions.
### Pip
Kapitan needs Python 3.7.
#### Install Python 3.7
* Linux: `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python3.7-dev python3-pip python3-yaml git`
* Mac: `brew install python3 libyaml git`
#### Install Kapitan
User (`$HOME/.local/lib/python3.7/bin` on Linux or `$HOME/Library/Python/3.7/bin` on macOS):
```shell
pip3 install --user --upgrade kapitan
```
System-wide (not recommended):
```shell
sudo pip3 install --upgrade kapitan
```
## Build Kapitan
### Docker
To build a docker image for the architecture of your machine, run `docker build . -t you-kapitan-image`, and to build for a specific platform, add `--platform linux/arm64`.
To build a multi-platform image (as the CI does), follow [the docker multi-platform documentation](https://docs.docker.com/build/building/multi-platform/).
## Related projects
* [Tesoro](https://github.com/kapicorp/tesoro) - Kubernetes Admission Controller for Kapitan Secrets
* [Kapitan Reference](https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan-reference) - our reference repository to get started with Kapitan