actually you should probably look into kubeadm or bootkube. Currently I tried to have some kind of scratch cluster myself, however it's just way easier to maint

actually you should probably look into kubeadm or bootkube. Currently I tried to have some kind of scratch cluster myself, however it's just way easier to maintain/update clusters that are on kubeadm or bootkube. also stuff that you describe does not look like some user error. btw. you should not expose the deployment yaml/json to "users"/"developers". You should have a ci that just runs `kubectl set image deployment/name pod-name=IMAGE` and keep all deployment descriptors, etc in a seperate source repository.