> K8s has an extensible Operator pattern that you can use to manage your own Custom Resources (CRs) by writing and deploying a controller I have seen it fail w

> K8s has an extensible Operator pattern that you can use to manage your own Custom Resources (CRs) by writing and deploying a controller I have seen it fail way too many times. Inspecting a failing deployment that now has some magic Go code someone wrote running on this cluster. I can see using the basic kube building blocks: deployments, pods, config maps, etc.; there are enough guides and tools to help you out. As soon as you start writing code that runs in there, you're now dealing with two problems: your actual thing you're deploying, and now the operator. Well, and then you need a mesh, and a way to manage certificates. and if it's a database to manage all the volumes. Everything looks good at the architect level - all the boxes and arrows line up, but when it breaks in production it's a nightmare to debug.