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Kubernets doesn't support simple scripting like passing variables and such? I know that Borg supports that via borgcfg, we basically have Borg templates for everything so you rarely have to write a new one from scratch. Not sure why it wasn't ported to the outside world.

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Author here. The closest thing to borgcfg in Kubernetes would be kubecfg [0]. It is based on jsonnet, the open source equivalent to GCL. The official blessed solution right now would be kustomize [1] since it is directly integrated into kubectl. I categorize both in the article with my evaluation as solutions.

[0] https://github.com/bitnami/kubecfg

[1] https://kustomize.io/

I’ll have to check that out, thank you for mentioning it.

Is `-k` very recent?

I am not certain, I think it was adopted mid 2019.

It's funny watching the open-source world gradually converge towards something that looks a lot like borgcfg.

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