---
title: "v2.0.0"
linkTitle: "v2.0.0"
date: 2019-02-05
description: >
  Kustomize v2.0.0
---

[security concern]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FYgLVdq-siB_Cef9yuQBmit0PbrE8lsyTBdGI2eA2y8/edit

After security review, a field used in secret
generation (see below) was removed from the
definition of a kustomization file with no
mechanism to convert it to a new form.  Also, the
set of files accessible from a kustomization file
has been further constrained.

Per the [versioning policy](/kustomize/faq/versioningpolicy),
backward incompatible changes trigger an increment
of the major version number, hence we go
from 1.0.11 to 2.0.0. We're taking this major
version increment opportunity to remove some
already deprecated fields, and the code paths
associated with them.

## Backward Incompatible Changes

### Kustomization Path Constraints

A kustomization file can specify paths to other
files, including resources, patches, configmap
generation data, secret generation data and
bases. In the case of a base, the path can be a
git URL instead.

In 1.x, these paths had to be relative to the
current kustomization directory (the location of
the kustomization file used in the `build`
command).

In 2.0, bases can continue to specify, via
relative paths, kustomizations outside the current
kustomization directory.  But non-base paths are
constrained to terminate in or below the current
kustomization directory. Further, bases specified
via a git URL may not reference files outside of
the directory used to clone the repository.

### Kustomization Field Removals

#### patches

`patches` was deprecated and replaced by
`patchesStrategicMerge` when `patchesJson6902` was
introduced.  In Kustomize 2.0.0, `patches` is
removed. Please use `patchesStrategicMerge`
instead.

#### imageTags

`imageTags` is replaced by `images` since `images`
can provide more features to change image names,
registries, tags and digests.

#### secretGenerator/commands

`commands` is removed from SecretGenerator due to
a [security concern]. One can use `files` or
`literals`, similar to ConfigMapGenerator, to
generate a secret.

```
secretGenerator:
- name: app-tls
  files:
    - secret/tls.cert
    - secret/tls.key
  type: "kubernetes.io/tls"
```

## Compatible Changes (New Features)

As this release is triggered by a security change,
there are no major new features to announce. A few
things that are worth mentioning in this release
are:

* More than _40_ issues closed since 1.0.11
  release (including many extensions to
  transformation rules).

* Users can run `kustomize edit fix` to migrate a
  kustomization file working with previous
  versions to one working with 2.0.0. For example,
  a kustomization.yaml with following content

  ```
  patches:
    - deployment-patch.yaml
  imageTags:
    - name: postgres
      newTag: v1
  ```

  will be converted to

  ```
  apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
  kind: Kustomization
  patchesStrategicMerge:
    - deployment-patch.yaml
  images:
    - name: postgres
      newTag: v1
  ```

* Kustomization filename

  In previous versions, the name of a
  kustomization file had to be
  `kustomization.yaml`.
  Kustomize allows `kustomization.yaml`,
  `kustomization.yml` and
  `Kustomization`. In a directory, only one of
  those filenames is allowed. If there are more
  than one found, Kustomize will exit with an
  error. Please select the best filename for your
  use cases.

* Cancelled plans to deprecate applying prefix/suffix to namespace.
  The deprecation warning

  ```
  Adding nameprefix and namesuffix to Namespace resource will be deprecated in next release.
  ```

  was removed.
