can I ask how everyone else is approaching local dev? would be great to declare my spec once instead of having seperate spec for dev/test/etc

personally, Helm... build everything with that and use the pulumi provider to deploy it when you need it. For local dev though, I tend to steer clear of a k8s requirement.

Does that mean you’re writing your yaml files in the Helm template language? Is there a way to pipe in outputs from other pulumi resources, eg. a planetscale db address?

yeah, full yaml for describing the k8s deployment then pulumi to automate the deployment and variable spec.

Interesting :) are there any useful examples of this approach I can read? Thank you