Okteto ignore certain yaml file

Question

In my GitHub repo I have 2 yaml files:

• k8s/deploy-all-secrets.yaml
• k8s/deploy-edge.yaml

I make use of cloud.okteto.com to deploy this deployment-file. But I don't want Okteto to deploy the deploy-all-secrets.yaml file. Is there any way I can exclude this file from Okteto?

I tried using a .stignore file, but this had no result.

Answer 1

According to the documentation https://okteto.com/docs/cloud/okteto-pipeline/. You can place any k8s manifest file that needs to be executed using kubectl apply in this folder. So by simply removing the deploy-all-secrets.yaml from the k8s folder, it won't be executed by Okteto.

Answer 2

Another option you have is to create an okteto-pipeline.yaml file at the root of your repo. This allows you to control how Okteto deploys your pipeline. For the scenario you describe, it would look like this:

deploy:
- kubectl apply -f deploy-all-secrets.yaml

More information on how to customize your pipelie is available here.

Note: The .stignore file is only used by the okteto up command, during the file synchronization phase. More information on that is available here.