Support reusable replacements.yaml

[skissane-medallia]

Use case: I have a replacements.yaml file. Its contents is the same for every overlay, and I manually duplicate it to each overlay, and then include it in each overlay's kustomize.yaml using:

replacements:
- path: replacements.yaml

I'd really like to create this file just once in the base.

I thought about using a symlink, but then I discovered kustomize rejects symlinks pointing outside of the overlay.

I thought about doing:

replacements:
- path: ../../base/replacements.yaml

But that results in a very similar error message.

If I put the replacements.yaml in the base, it doesn't work properly, because it is pulling source values from the settings changed by other parts of the overlay's kustomization.yaml.

So it looks like there isn't actually a solution here, I'm just forced to manually keep on copying this replacements.yaml file everywhere.

Still, it would be great if kustomize could provide a better solution for this.

[sda399]

You can put your replacement in a resource of kind Component then include your Component in your overlays