Comment by getrealyall

Let's be clear: all of the YAML-cum-DSL K8s deployment options are terrible. It's still just templating with extra steps. But Kubernetes is, fundamentally, one big while(1) loop turning YAML into infrastructure, so, eventually, you have to target YAML. It's just unfortunate that we got to "spicy regexes with if statements" and then stopped, instead of using something more robust.