> A dozen lines of code is a lot. Are you really trying to argue that using 1 or 2 lines of YAML per component to define how an entire application is deployed

> A dozen lines of code is a lot. Are you really trying to argue that using 1 or 2 lines of YAML per component to define how an entire application is deployed and scaled is a lot? How many lines of CloudFormation would you need to do just that? And... I mean... What's your alternative to a infrastructure-as-code config file? Clicking around a dashboard to treat your app as a pet? > Especially when it's in a language you don't know and don't already have installed. It's self-describing YAML (or JSON). It's not a arcane special purpose DSL like cloidformation or SAM, or a convoluted Python program like CDK.