No, I know what Ansible is, thanks. I've written and maintained Ansible playbooks. I respect myself, my team, and my customers and deploy statelessly with NixOS. My life is significantly easier than it was in the salt/Ansible days and there's no amount of money worth those headaches.

> It's yet another layer of yaml to throw at the declaration problem.

Really, my head is already starting to hurt. I KNOW.

> This was just enough for me to post... they aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm sorry but there's no fucking good reason to templatize k8s yaml into Jinja/Ansible. Just hell no. Just more Ansible Things that look like a solution because folks don't actually know k8s.