[Question] Is it possible to patch by name or matcher rather than position?

[mnishizawa]

In all the examples I see for referring to a value to replace with patches, the reference looks something like
path: /spec/templates/0/inputs/parameters/2/default

To me this seems like a potential issue if someone were to move the original value from one position to another. Is there a way to use the name or some other kind of identifier so the path could be independent of the position?

[Shell32-Natsu]

I assume you are talking about json patch. Unfortunately this path format is defined in the json patch RFC and kustomize just follows it.

[monopole]

#3492 talks about the general idea of grabbing data from some resource/field and writing it to some other field.

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[natasha41575]

Closing this issue since the replacement transformer is now implemented (#3492). This will be available in an upcoming release.