> People who have gotten over the K8s learning curve almost all tell you it isn't actually that bad.

I have been using K8s for nearly a decade. I use it both professionally and personally. I chose to use it personally. I appreciate why it exists, and I appreciate what it does. I believe that I have gotten over the learning curve.

And I will tell you: it really is that bad. I mean, it’s not worse than childhood cancer. But it is a terrible, resource-heavy, misbegotten system. Its data structures are diseased. Its architecture is baroque. It is a disaster.

But it’s also useful, and there is currently no real alternative. There really should be, though. I strongly believe that there can be, and I hope that there will be.

The first time someone started writing templated YAML should have been the moment of clarity.