>> May I ask what stack you employ to meet these goals? Nothing fancy :-) Ansible + Jenkins pipelines >> these piles of "executable yaml" never appear to be u

>> May I ask what stack you employ to meet these goals? Nothing fancy :-) Ansible + Jenkins pipelines >> these piles of "executable yaml" never appear to be up to the task of complex deployment Agreed, there's an untapped market here - somewhere between your enterprise GitOps model like i'm alluding to (usually heavily integrated with Kubernetes) but repackaged for smaller scale use.