It will take you 18 months to get kubectl access on just the staging environment though, and then another 6 to track down only 90% of the obscure people and pro

It will take you 18 months to get kubectl access on just the staging environment though, and then another 6 to track down only 90% of the obscure people and processes that generate and mutate the manifests before deploying. Finally you'll realize that the whole time it was one guy in a corner cubicle in a remote office typing custom magic commands acting as the sole link between the engineering org and the cluster. K8s is just another giant footgun. Good and bad orgs will still be good or bad, with or without it, but it definitely amplifies the bad.