> less about K8’s and more about the infra as code movement. It doesn’t matter if you use K8, CDK, or terraform - you get the same benefits the OP stated

I’d like to gently push back on that. ;-D

Terraform, when committed to git, provides organisational memory. But less so uniformity, since all providers are different (and you should expect different things when applying). No tracing besides git. And tfstate is hard to share between developers, unlike kube state.

Kubernetes is more the same across providers. And it manages drift after something is applied, which is not a direct argument of OP, but a strong reason over other IAC.

And yes, I also enjoy how well deploying works. And how things generally fit together. Liking the networking complexity less so.