> If you have 200 services, I could easily see 200 YAML files.
Out of curiosity, in what case would you _not_ see 200 files for 200 services? Even with Helm, you'd write a chart per app wouldn't you?
I've seen much-lauded "Devops" or "platform" teams spend two months writing 500+ files for 3 simple python services, 5 if you include two databases.
We could have spent a tiny fraction of that 10-dev-months to deploy something to production on a bare VM on any cloud platform in a secure and probably very-scalable way.
These days I cringe and shudder everytime I hear someone mentions writing "helm charts", or using the word "workloads".