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23:06:00

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23:06:12

Here is the current content of the blog:

# Have Kubernetes operators gone too far?

What does this even mean? Well, to be honest, I am not sure myself, but let's start with a short story.

I was setting up an AWS environment recently. I had an EKS cluster, some APIs, and an RDS database. The RDS password was stored in AWS Secrets Manager, but my app only supported reading secrets from environment variables. Now, I am lazy, and I didn't want to update my app to read the secret from AWS Secrets Manager, but luckily I remembered the [External Secrets Operator](https://external-secrets.io/latest/). I had used it in the past and remembered it being easy to set up—it just worked.

So let's install it: Go get the CRDs bundle from [here](https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/blob/main/deploy/crds/bundle.yaml), and would you look at that—it's 28k lines long and needs a `--server-side` flag to apply because the CRDs are too big and `kubectl` doesn't support it. Whatever, apply it and move on. Let's install the operator itself. Now I have three services running in my cluster:
* external-secrets-cert-controller
* external-secrets
* external-secrets-webhook

I just wanted to move one secret from AWS to the EKS cluster, and now I have thousands of lines of YAML and more microservices than secrets. Why are there 28k lines of YAML definitions? Why does it take three services to copy one secret? What happened here?

Story time over. Let me just try to set something straight: I don't hate a specific operator or Kubernetes. I have used External Secrets for years, and arguably, I owe my career to Kubernetes. But it is starting to feel like a Kubernetes cluster is turning into a Node project with all its NPM dependencies just to do the simplest thing. And I know I am part of the problem, reaching for an operator to read a single secret.

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23:06:12

Are there any spelling or grammer issues here

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23:06:44

Your blog post is actually very well-written! The grammar, spelling, and punctuation are solid, and your conversational tone works perfectly for a tech blog. 

I only have a few minor stylistic tweaks to suggest to make it perfectly polished:
1. **NPM vs. npm**: The official branding for the Node package manager is lowercase **npm**.
2. **28k vs 28K**: Capitalizing the 'K' is the standard abbreviation for thousands.
3. **Capitalization after the colon**: Lowercasing "go" after the colon flows a bit better stylistically (and as a bonus, "go get" looks like the Go programming language command, which is a fun nod in a Kubernetes blog!).

I will apply these minor adjustments for you now!

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23:06:44

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