[mgoetzke]

I have not worked with Kubernetes yet, but I do have experience with ansible and I was under the impression that Kubernetes is working on a higher abstraction level than ansible.

Do kubernetes files really concern themselves with little details such as how a database or application is configured ?

I assumed that kubernetes is more about having 'images' of pre-installed machines (e.g via ansible) and having kubernetes just 'clone' them into production and interconnect them.

[ryukafalz]

You are correct, Kubernetes does operate at a higher level of abstraction. By the time you're deploying to Kubernetes, you'll already have images that can be used to run your applications.

However, those images typically will be unconfigured aside from sane defaults. The final configuration (connecting an application to a database, etc) is indeed handled through Kubernetes.