[CipherThrowaway]

I remember being blown away by this. Unhygienic templating and lack of template and serialization boundaries has been such a consistent disaster in our field for so many decades that it is hard to believe we are still dealing with this kind of design error in relatively new technology.

My feeling is we will probably all look back at the over-use of text based DSLs and configuration languages as a giant mistake. Not just with respect to K8s, but IaC, CI/CD config and the rest of the DevOps YAML/config language mess. In retrospect, it has been a case of simplistic instead of simple. "Declarative" config languages are hello world optimized, and what looked great at the beginning of the S-curve is starting to look pretty damn bad.

[selfmodruntime]

Yes! We are so close with the configuration as code paradigm. Why can‘t I configure K8S with python or javascript?

[Smaug123]

You can with Pulumi, for example. I've only used it for provisioning a Digital Ocean droplet before, not for Kubernetes, but it was relatively painless. (Although I do find approximately one new panic in Pulumi every time I upgrade to a new version.)