[crabbone]

Long ago I wanted to re-implement at least part of kubectl in Python. After all, Kubernetes has documented API... what I quickly discovered was that kubectl commands don't map to Kubernetes API. Almost at all. A lot of these commands will require multiple queries going back and forth to accomplish what the command does. I quickly abandoned the project... so, maybe I've overlooked something, but, again, my impression was that instead of having generic API with queries that can be executed server-side to retrieve necessary information, Kubernetes API server offers very specialized disjoint set of commands that can only retrieve one small piece of interesting info at a time.

This, obviously, isn't a scalable approach, but there's no "wrapper" you could write in order to mitigate the problem. The API itself is the problem.