[outworlder]

Isn't this a symptom of a lack of tooling?

Only a few people need to know all the details. We have many developers that know absolutely nothing how this stuff works. They only know that they push code, and a container falls off the other side, which can even be installed automatically.

Also, you don't need sidecars. Add a k8s ingress, or even deploy a separate nginx that will do this for you (we use the second option). Developers do not care.

I'm starting to think that minikube is an anti-pattern.

[spyspy]

Companies often think that with k8s they can put the onus of devops on the app developers themselves. My company quickly found that that it's not nearly that simple and you still need a team of engineers dedicated to helping people get set up, debug issues that arise, and build tools for both.