🔧 The YAML janitor problem: why Kubernetes dev environments always drift and how to fix it

A platform engineer at a 40 person startup told us he spent every Monday morning going through a backlog of "my environment is broken" tickets. He was not writing code. He was manually patching dev namespaces because someone had updated a ConfigMap in production and the dev copies had drifted again. "I'm basically a janitor for YAML," he said.

He...