The Building Blocks of DX: K8s Evolution From CLI to GitOps

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kubectl exposes ~40 operations and ~70 flags and accepts plugins named kubectl-, which can be simple binaries placed on PATH; a demo installs a greetings plugin via crew and runs it successfully. krew indexes >90 plugins; cert-manager shows ~700,000 downloads and krew itself ~150,000. Helm (templating, chart defaults) and Kustomize (overlay declarative) contrast, while Flux and Argo CD drive GitOps* pull-based reconciliation. A SheetOps demo uses Google Sheets to scale Argo CD replicas live.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:55User Personas
3. 4:20CLI
4. 7:37DX Enhancement
5. 17:23Wrappers
6. 20:47Templating

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