In k8s, being able to use things like External DNS and automatically and declaratively manage DNS entries with code saves so much time you won’t want to go back once you get used to it.

It takes a while to get your head sorted around it and also to deploy but automagically having your DNS entries, your certificates, et etc sorted feels great.

You hired this guy to do new things, let him do them (as a PoC)

Congratulations!

Best I have used is Flux with helmrelease objects and kustomize. Only lacking some UI to get flux events and logs together. I guess that Argocd can do the same with application onjects using charts as source but haven’t tested it yet

But managing both k8s external components (external-dns, external-secrests, CSI, etc etc) and your own apps with kustomizable charts makes so much more sense than having thousand of manifests that I would recommend everyone to try.

If I could be bothered to sit and write down a distilled version of my last decade at work it would be something very similar. Any junior SRE can benefit from this.