[clux]

Honestly I'd much rather have some configurable yaml than some obscure app in the middle of your cluster that reads CRDs when what you're doing is just adding a side car.

At least this way you can tell if your local yaml is applied or not without a complicated diffing algorithm that compensates for an in-cluster modifier.

[jazoom]

I would too, except, have you seen what your YAML looks like after all the Linkerd additions? There's a reason they don't even mention in the docs exactly what it changes.