[kasey_junk]

What you are describing is fairly trivially accomplished using a combination of vm image provisioning software (e.g packer) and a traditional configuration management system (e.g. ansible).

It will be simpler, more straightforward and most likely use less computing resources. It’s also a decades old technique at this point that is extremely battle hardened.

You don’t say it outright but you imply that you are doing this as a single operator. That removes giant swathes of the advantages K8s brings to the table. Further your implication that there are multiple edge clusters is a case that is fairly new to K8s and the best practice would be to run n K8s clusters.

If you are looking for a more managed/turn key option I’m a huge fly.io fan boy.