I'm building a GitOps operator for Kubernetes focused on simplicity. It is functional and you can check the project on GitHub: https://github.com/caldito/soup

Also, you can see here a demo of it: https://asciinema.org/a/439238

It uses SSA (https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/server-side-a...) to perform the deployment and has other cool features.

Let me know what you think, hope you find it interesting/useful :)