Question 1

How does the Kubernetes Manifest Generator work?

Accepted Answer

Enter your app name, container image, port, replica count, and namespace. The generator emits production-ready YAML for the resources you pick — Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, Secret, Pod, Job, CronJob, and HPA — each with resource limits, readiness/liveness probes, and a non-root securityContext baked in. Every field has a tooltip-style explanation, and the security linter flags :latest tags, privileged containers, missing limits, and missing probes so you can harden before applying.

Question 2

Which Kubernetes resources are supported?

Accepted Answer

Eight first-class resource templates: Deployment (with rolling update strategy, resource requests/limits, liveness/readiness probes, non-root securityContext, and env from ConfigMap/Secret), Service (ClusterIP / NodePort / LoadBalancer), Ingress (with host, path, and TLS), ConfigMap (key-value data), Secret (base64 stub data), Pod (single-container for ad-hoc jobs), Job (with backoffLimit and ttlSecondsAfterFinished), CronJob (with schedule and concurrencyPolicy), and HPA (with min/max replicas and CPU/memory targets). All are generated from the same app inputs for consistency.

Question 3

What security defaults are baked into the generated manifests?

Accepted Answer

Every Deployment and Pod runs as a non-root user with runAsNonRoot: true, readOnlyRootFilesystem where possible, allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, and dropped ALL capabilities. Resource requests and limits are populated with sensible defaults (250m CPU / 256Mi request, 500m / 512Mi limit). Readiness and liveness probes use HTTP GET or TCP socket against your port. The linter then flags any remaining issues: :latest tag, privileged: true, missing limits, missing probes, missing securityContext, and insecure image registries.

Question 4

Can I generate Kustomize or Helm output instead of plain YAML?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Toggle Kustomize output to get a kustomization.yaml referencing your resources, or Helm output to get a values.yaml + templated manifests with {{ .Values.appName }} placeholders. You can also import existing YAML to lint and re-serialize, and download each resource as its own file or as a single all-in-one YAML document.

Question 5

What extra features does this tool have compared to others?

Accepted Answer

(1) Eight resource templates (Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, Secret, Pod, Job, CronJob, HPA). (2) App-name + image + port + replicas input. (3) Resource limits + probes + non-root securityContext defaults. (4) Per-field explanation tooltips. (5) Security lint (12+ rules: latest tag, privileged, missing limits, missing probes, missing securityContext, hostNetwork, hostPID, hostPath, etc.). (6) YAML validation (parse + re-serialize). (7) Kustomize output (kustomization.yaml). (8) Helm output (values.yaml + templated manifests). (9) Import-to-edit (paste YAML, lint + re-serialize). (10) Download per-resource or all-in-one. (11) Local history (last 20). (12) Shareable URL with options encoded. (13) Copy to clipboard. (14) Optional BYO-key LLM polish (OpenAI/Anthropic). (15) Honesty disclaimers (always kubectl apply --dry-run and review; on-device templates are weaker than BYO-key for exotic CRDs).

AI Kubernetes Manifest Generator — Secure Deployment YAML

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