I’ve always thought a reasonable pragmatic solution is to force configuration files to be loaded based on an optional env variable. Kubernetes can easily mount

I’ve always thought a reasonable pragmatic solution is to force configuration files to be loaded based on an optional env variable. Kubernetes can easily mount a complex configuration file via a volume or configmap (configmapgenerator is awesome). As long as the path is configurable and the env var is documented - it’s not so bad.