[eysi]

> I'd also like to see something that takes it a step further--build the docker image AND a set of kubernetes manifests that reference that docker image

You might want to check out Garden for that (https://docs.garden.io/basics/how-garden-works). It thinks about your stack as a graph and manages build and deploy dependencies. And it supports the use case you're describing, i.e., you can combine a Docker image and a set of K8s manifests into a single "module" and the manifests can reference the Docker image.

Full disclosure: I'm affiliated with the project.