I completely agree that for managing the host nodes/machines, Ansible is a huge win. Though this article focuses on deploying ON the cluster. Ideally the comp

I completely agree that for managing the host nodes/machines, Ansible is a huge win. Though this article focuses on deploying ON the cluster. Ideally the complexity of deploying ON a cluster (i.e. 'kubectl apply') doesn't increase with its size. In some ways it actually gets simpler, as you can worry less about per-node scheduling due to resource constraints/packing.