Comment by jitl

Kubernetes is very much a choose your own adventure, and it’s very easy for your infra people to choose an adventure through Dante’s 12 levels of SaaS hell.

It doesn’t help that the popular tools like Helm or Kustomize are still so over-general and YAML-happy that they only seem to add complexity.

If I was going to brave these waters again, I would probably write my own tooling / templates with very narrow customization per “service”, and all the YAML generation would be done from TypeScript or similar function calls & composition, or at worst Terraform. The Kustomize or Helm stuff that has YAML tempting YAML… painful.