properly reflect the changes required by the argo applicationSet

base/deployment.yaml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ spec:
         - containerPort: 8000
         env:
         - name: MEMCACHED_HOST_PATH
-          value: "memcached:11211"
+          value: "memcached" # this value may be changed by kustomize nameReference transformer
         - name: NUM_WORKERS
           value: "3"
         - name: OSM_CACHE_DIR
@@ -44,4 +44,3 @@ spec:
         persistentVolumeClaim:
           claimName: osm-cache
 
-    

base/kustomization.yaml

@@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ resources:
   - service.yaml
   - ingress.yaml
   - memcached/
+
+configurations:
+  # allow nameReference to work with different mentions of the same resource as well
+  - name_reference.yaml

base/name_reference.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+nameReference:
+  # Tie target Service metadata.name to IngressRoute's spec.routes.services.name
+  # Once Service name is changed, the IngressRoute referrerd service name will be changed as well.
+  - kind: Service
+    fieldSpecs:
+      - kind: IngressRoute
+        path: spec/routes/services/name
+
+  # same for the memcached service: since separate overlays may change its name the env variable in the deployment should be updated accordingly
+  - kind: Service
+    fieldSpecs:
+      - kind: Deployment
+        path: spec/template/spec/containers/env/value