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no one is stopping you from importing k8s types as protobufs and writing a program to talk to k8s api via protobuf encoding. all the types are already protos (except CRDs). it's just not the most user-friendly way so most people don't use it.
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no, you don't have to resort to imperative protobuf slinging.

https://tanka.dev/

https://www.pulumi.com/

And plenty more exist today. But helm got popular first, so due to the collective action problem it's going to take the industry forever to switch off it.

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Isn't this basically crossplane? https://www.crossplane.io/
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Of course it will. Just add a few spaces at the front of the line and it’ll throw an error.
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