If you're any good at all at CDK, it's cdk8s is also a very solid clear & clean way to do kubernetes too. https://cdk8s.io/

I'm trying to make the decision for where to go with my home lab, and while Pulumi and Cue look neat, cdk8s seems so predictable & has such clear structure & form to it.

That's said the l1/l2/l3 distinction can be a brute to deal with. There's significant hidden complexity there.

I use cdk8s for my homelab and absolutely love it. 100% recommend.

Homelab CDKs: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...

Script I wrote to generate types from Helm charts: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...