I agree, a package manager is designed for installing a graph of versioned (effectively immutable) artifacts like a binary or code package. Kubernetes is built

I agree, a package manager is designed for installing a graph of versioned (effectively immutable) artifacts like a binary or code package. Kubernetes is built to run services, which are not static but continuously running and react to inputs. Services need monitoring and self-healing to ensure they are healthy and operational. In the future I predict we are moving towards a model where we have ways expressively define configuration (CUE) locally which we push to Kubernetes operators [0] which do the heavy lifting to deploy, monitor, and manage/upgrade a defined service that the operator is responsible for. [0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operat...