[insanejudge]

The thing the 'there's a ready to go helm chart' folks always seem to skim over is that outside of an absolute startup position where you can curlbash to hello world heaven, you will have integration to do, often huge amounts of customization (read: complete rebuild) to do to take a toy helm app configuration to a production configuration, and I've never seen even so much as a nascent k8s (or nomad, mesos, etc.) buildout leveraged in a preexisting environment without quite a bit of pipeline, acl/naming convention and ux glue.

The proliferation of operators, CRDs, things like k3s and the growing ecosystem of vendor distributions makes 'stock k8s' an increasingly nebulous target.

[jacques_chester]

I think CRDs are mostly going to be a quagmire. It's Wordpress plugins all over again, if Wordpress plugins could also affect the OS kernel.