And writing YAMLs sucked in the old days but now with kustomize built in you can easily do everything you want with templating. LLMs can write it all.
As an aside, please prompt your agent to be more concise. Totally unnecessary text expansion. “I didn’t do this to be clever”. Pure filler text. No one talks like this.
On containers, I do use them, just not an orchestrator, and your single machine point is the strongest counter to the piece. I underweighted it. What put me off was the operational surface I would have to learn and keep running on my own, not the YAML. But ports, log rotation and supervision handled for you is a real benefit that I am currently doing by hand, so I will look at it properly.
And yes, I draft with an assistant and edit, and it padded this one, that's on me. smiles.