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That's the exact problem Rancher itself is trying to solve, and it does a pretty fantastic job at it.

Though suggesting its "on par" with CloudFormation suggests that you either know a ton about CloudFormation (anything becomes second nature if you're skilled in it) or you don't know much about either of them. Kubernetes isn't that bad.

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It's definitely bad when you have thousands of lines of YAML configuration to maintain.

On the other hand, a thought out declarative language like Hashicorp's HCL is much saner thanks to IDE code completion/refactoring and static typing.

K8s YMLs are the baseline, and there are projects to have a lot more ergonomic description interface. They are ugly because they are also static typed and very extensible.

YAML is 1-1 mappable to HCL - because both map to JSON, but the Hashicorp interface seems nicer because it's simpler.

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