[cppforlife]

> I like the idea of having a state and resolving differences between desired and actual state, but not enough to rewrite everything in HCL.

i authored https://get-kapp.io based on my previous experiences managing iaas resources as cattle. it strongly revolves around idea of managing chnageset between actual and desired configuration.

it was also built as a tool that solely focuses on deployment to k8s, leaving configuration building (ie templating) to other tools.

take a look at it, would love to hear what you think.

on a side note, someone recently asked me to also wrap kapp as a terraform provider: https://github.com/k14s/terraform-provider-k14s