grafana/tanka
Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 93
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 15.5
- age_days: 2604
- days_rel: 48
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 29
Adoption not part of the score
2682 stars · 191 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Grafana Tanka is a CLI tool (tk) that uses the Jsonnet data templating language to write clean, reusable, and concise Kubernetes configurations as an alternative to raw YAML. It supports diffing, applying to clusters, and reproducible Helm chart vendoring, and is used in production by Grafana Cloud.
Use cases
- replace yaml with jsonnet for kubernetes manifests
- write reusable kubernetes configuration libraries
- preview k8s changes before applying with diff
- vendor and modify helm charts reproducibly
- manage kubernetes deployments without yaml boilerplate
- migrate from deprecated ksonnet
When to choose
- you want programmatic abstraction and reuse in kubernetes configs instead of yaml templating
- you are a ksonnet user seeking a drop-in replacement
- you need reliable diffs of cluster changes before applying
- you want to compose helm charts into jsonnet workflows
When to avoid
- your team prefers helm or kustomize and yaml-based workflows
- you don't want to learn the jsonnet language
- you need a gui or dashboard-style kubernetes configuration tool
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
configuration-management deployment cli infrastructure-as-code infrastructure-as-code developer-tools cli go jsonnet kubernetes ksonnet-successor helm yaml-alternative jsonnet-bundler devops containers linux macos
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/grafana/tanka · fetched 2026-08-28 · f6232f9d6f78
- homepage: https://tanka.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · 827611965eb7
- site_page: https://tanka.dev/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · a287949f7c08
- site_page: https://tanka.dev/libraries/install-publish · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e9992549d0b
- site_page: https://tanka.dev/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1e57657077a7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| grafana/tanka | main | 97 |
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