Jsonnet wouldn't be as bad as it is if there was just a modicum of debugging aid. I'm slowly chipping away at that problem by implementing some tooling. For ex

Jsonnet wouldn't be as bad as it is if there was just a modicum of debugging aid. I'm slowly chipping away at that problem by implementing some tooling. For example I recently added "traceback" functionality in https://github.com/kubecfg/kubecfg https://github.com/kubecfg/kubecfg Another thing that I noticed is that most people who end up writing template libraries for jsonnet are using too many functions and not leveraging the strengths of jsonnet, namely object extension. I opensourced a library I'm using internally at $work. It's far from perfect and sorely lacking docs and examples but if you want to give jsonnet another go I'd recommend you try kubecfg + https://github.com/kubecfg/k8s-libsonnet https://github.com/kubecfg/k8s-libsonnet