Most companies I've seen end up building some kind of framework around Kubernetes to make the developer experience tolerable. The threshold for getting started and getting a basic deployment up and running is way too high.

Of course, there's a huge cost to building your own framework as well... And it's easy to get wrong.

I started https://www.jetpack.io/ recently to try and build a better solution on top of Kubernetes. If you're interested in checking it out and giving us early feedback, you can signup on the website, or email us at `demo at jetpack.io`