> In fact could you not just cron the cli deployment command on the nodes and get an effective poor man's declarative layer to guard against node failures if yo

> In fact could you not just cron the cli deployment command on the nodes and get an effective poor man's declarative layer to guard against node failures if your ok with a 1 min or 1 sec recovery objective? Yeah, you absolutely could and someone on our Discord has written a 30-line bash script that essentially runs a reconciliation loop with the CLI. Thanks for the point on underselling by calling it imperative rather than declarative!