Apply

The final step of the process is apply, all the patches generated through transform can be applied to exported resources via apply. This command consumes the output of transform command.

Example

crane apply -e export -t transform -o output

Apply the patches in the transform directory to the resources in the export directory and save the modified resource files in the output directory.

After applying the patches, the resources located in output directory can either be deployed in the destination cluster using kubectl apply, or they can be pushed to a repository and then can be applied with the help of GitOps pipeline. An example of the later scenario can be found here).