[smarterclayton]

Agree (Kubernetes and OpenShift dev here) - OpenShift is actually bundled as a monolithic Go binary that contains the full Kubernetes stack and client, the Openshift admin client, user client, and js web console for exactly that reason (even though it is all technically micro services on the server side). The single binary comes with downsides (binary is 95M) but it makes the "try it out" flow much, much, easier to see it all working. But the converse is true - you have to be able to decouple those bits at scale, and you eventually will want to start leveraging the platform to run itself.