Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Anurag Goal pointed out that even with managed Kubernetes clusters, users often have to write significant amounts of YAML manually to describe application deployments. This YAML often details the internal workings of Kubernetes architecture and concepts, adding to the management overhead.
“You spin up even on quote unquote managed Kubernetes clusters, you have to write a lot of YAML by hand that describes how to deploy your applications, but that really what that YAML is doing is describing a lot of the internals of the Kubernetes architecture and the Kubernetes concepts themselves.”