[parvenu74]

Is there even a viable alternative to Kubernetes at this point? For that matter, is there an alternative to YAML for defining Kubernetes setups?

[mads]

I find that nomad is actually a very good alternative.

[moshloop]

Sure, https://github.com/Azure/draft doesn't require any YAML and deploys onto Kubernetes.

I remember someone also doing a demo of configuring your kubernetes deployment on your Java objects directly.

[eldelshell]

OpenShift of course. And no, there are no alternatives AFAIK for the setups.

[lytedev]

I believe there are a few viable k8s alternatives depending on your requirements. We use Jsonnet currently, but CUElang looks neat as well.