- Kustomize introduces a template-free way to customize application configuration that simplifies the use of off-the-shelf applications. Now, built into kubectl as apply -k.
- Kustomize helps customizing config files in a template free way.
- Kustomize provides a number of handy methods like generators to make customization easier.
- It simplifies the manifest files using common values and generators, Common values help keep things like labels names and annotations consistent
- Generators help create and map config maps and secrets to our pods