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Glasskube Blog
Company blog · glasskube.dev/blogprogrammingsystems
Glasskube Blog is the company blog at glasskube.dev, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “The guide to kubectl I never had”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Glasskube's blog and docs for posts about this open source Kubernetes package manager, including its CNCF Landscape listing and a comparison page against Timoni. Comments are bare links or neutral citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A software and AI engineering company operating out of Chicago and Vienna. Creators of the software distribution platform distr.sh.
Most-linked posts?
- The guide to kubectl I never had3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-07
- The Guide to Git I Never Had3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-18
- Shortcomings of Helm – Glasskube2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Yes we do, in fact you can find the exact comparison here: https://glasskube.dev/docs/comparisons/helm/
Comment linking /docs/comparisons/helm/
on “Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm”Submitted One year after switching from Java to Go as a story · 257 points
HN discussionOur demo is more end user focused. You can find more information about our configuration options in our package configuration documentation: https://glasskube.dev/docs/design/package-config/
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on “Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm”Submitted Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS as a story · 203 points
HN discussionLooks like they were accepted into the CNCF Landscape at least https://glasskube.dev/blog/cncf-landscape/
Comment linking /blog/cncf-landscape/
on “Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm”Submitted Comparing Docusaurus and Starlight and why we made the switch as a story · 58 points
HN discussionReviewing their docs I found this: https://glasskube.dev/docs/comparisons/timoni/ I have personally never worked with Timoni
Comment linking /docs/comparisons/timoni/
on “Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm”Submitted The Guide to Git I Never Had as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThanks for clarifying your inputs. > This misses the point, what we need is something more like Terraform, which has a way to get dynamic information from resource values that are assigned by the system. One such example would be the secret that the postgres operator generates for connecting in the api server that needs access. It is also already possible to inject values from secrets during runtime. You can for exa…
Comment linking /docs/design/package-config/
on “Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm”Submitted Show HN: Glasskube v0.0.1 Technical Preview for a New Kubernetes Package Manager as a story · 29 points
HN discussionIf you are not on open-shift olm and the operator hub is quite an overkill. I wrote a more detailed explanation on our website: https://glasskube.dev/docs/comparisons/olm/ Tldr.: If you are already using open shift, make use of the operator hub, else glasskube is the more lightweight and simpler solution with similar concepts.
Comment linking /docs/comparisons/olm/
on “Show HN: GitOps Template for Kubernetes”Submitted The guide to kubectl I never had as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHi Justin We have a comparison page with OLM here: https://glasskube.dev/docs/comparisons/olm/ Compared to Helm v2 the client doesn't talk to the controller (server) component directly, we only interact via the Kubernetes API and everything is stored in CRs. A complete architecture Diagram can be found in our docs: https://glasskube.dev/docs/ Do you have any specifc questions or concerns? Are you facing any challeng…
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on “Show HN: Glasskube – The new Kubernetes Package Manager is now in Beta”Submitted The Guide To Git I never had as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCurrently Glasskube only supports wrapping and patching Helm Charts and plain manifests. As Helm chart creation has its quirks ( https://glasskube.dev/blog/5-helm-shortcomings/ ) creating native Glasskube packages is high up on our road map. Our main priorities are: - Well defined package structure - Comprehensive but scaleable configuration options - Integration with existing typed configuration options & dependenc…
Comment linking /blog/5-helm-shortcomings/
on “Ask HN: In which configuration language should Glasskube Native packages be in?”Submitted The guide to Git I never had as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCurrently Glasskube only supports wrapping and patching Helm Charts and plain manifests. As Helm chart creation has its quirks ( https://glasskube.dev/blog/5-helm-shortcomings/ ) creating native Glasskube packages is high up on our road map. Our main priorities are: - Well defined package structure - Comprehensive but scaleable configuration options - Integration with existing typed configuration options & dependenc…
Comment linking /blog/5-helm-shortcomings/
on “Which configuration lange should we pick for Glasskube Native packages?”Submitted The guide to kubectl I never had as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Open Source AI Using Kubeflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why nobody grows up wanting to be a DevOps engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Set Up a Discord Server for Your Open Source Community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inner Workings of Kubernetes Management Front Ends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glasskube Is Gitops Ready with ArgoCD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shortcomings of Helm – Glasskube as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The guide to kubectl I never had as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glasskube – Kubernetes Package Manager now supports updates and version pinning as a story · 1 points
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