Would really, really love to get an official release of sops with age support. Thanks for the tool--compared to GPG age is a complete breath of fresh air.
You want helm or one of the many, many tools built on top of kubernetes to ease the deployment of applications. All of the same complexity of deploying services was there with docker, you were just insulated and hidden from it by some of its opinions. Whether you want to or not, if you want to manage costs and performance of your app you're going to need to learn (or pay people who have learned) about how to deploy and manage apps in production at scale.
minikube. It works with every hypervisor (or even old docker desktop) and spins up a linux VM to run all the kubernetes services, your containers, etc. The CLI is dead simple to learn (minikube start and you're done) and the tool is endorsed, used and maintained by the official kubernetes team.
No Nat, all is NOT right in the world. Right now children are being separated from parents at the border. The "uterus collector" is performing forced hysterectomies on detained women. All of this is being done by ICE, a government organization you have defended and your company supports & profits from: https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-deve...
So please check yourself before swooping in to make ridiculous statements about the state of the world. The world is NOT right and GitHub is NOT helping.