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`envsubst` on a k8s manifest, for templating. The space for templating/dynamic k8s manifests is complex, needlessly so I felt. But this... just works. It has been running in CI for a couple months now, deploying to prod. I'm sure the day that breaks down will come, but it's not here yet.

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Are you me?

I’ve been working on the same thing for a few months now.

Not only is it more customizable / less complicated than helm / other solutions, but GNU gettext is almost 30?! years old at this point, and environment variables are probably realistically double that age. They aint going anywhere anytime soon.

Plus I feel that more complex logic removes value from the configs we are building, and so am not interested in many other tools.

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