[andix]

Exactly the opposite. You build a container and Kubernetes just runs, updates and scales it, and also connects your dependencies (DBs, Queues, ...). It even creates and manages your dependencies.

Without thousands of lines of yaml and funky environment variables. Magically. So let's call it Magic Kubernetes then :)

[compsciphd]

i.e. you want an operator with CRDs for your application. (my former role was writing one). a good operator does make a specific application work "magically".