Hi, i want to use ConfigTemplates and reuse one kubernetes manifest file for multiple services. When i set the (ConfigTemplate) variable configs[].spec.files[0] to

./manifests/*

i get an error, that the file is not found. Thats fine for the moment, because the file is searched within the directory where the

RenderTemplate

is located. But as soon as i try to change the path one directory up, for example

../manifests/*

i get the following error :/

sh
Error validating configure handler output from provider local-kubernetes for Deploy type kubernetes:

config does not match any of the allowed types

Sorry for the late reply here. The error message is a bit confusing (tripped me up as well, we need to fix that) but I believe the issue you're seeing is due to the fact that you can't reference files in parent directories in Garden actions. This is really just a limitation of Garden. There is a workaround though in case it makes sense for your use case: You can basically manually overwrite the "source path" of any Garden action and set it to e.g. the root of the project. So let's say you have the following structure:

.
├── api
│   └── garden.yml
├── garden.yml
└── manifests

In this case, you can't by default reference the manifests in the

api/garden.yml

file because it would require

files: ../manifests/**/*

and that

../

is basically not allowed. However, in

api/garden.yml

you can set:

source:
  path: ../

That basically "tricks" Garden into thinking the action is at the root of the project and you would now reference the manifests with

files: ./manifests/**/*

. There's an example of this pattern here: https://github.com/garden-io/garden/tree/main/examples/k8s-deploy-patch-resources The

source.path

field is basically the only config field in where you'll see

..

in the context of a path.

Awesome 🙂 thank you!