Kompose

What do you like best?

It easily enables you to control your k8s environment because you can layer your configuration and because there exists language SDKs so you can drive changes from code if you have the needs. With the layered configuration for example I have I've used it to control environments locally and elsewhere. It comes with language SDKs that are useful to dynamically manipulating configuration in code. I've done this during complex testing.

What do you dislike?

It has a steep learning curve. The number of files and configuration is overwhelming at first. You have to understand the terminology and then you can be powerful with it.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Local environments need to be spun up in k8s just as they are elsewhere. It easily allows us to override values to make local development easy and reliable in a microservices environment.