Naive question, aside from the

Program

resource, what benefits does the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator have versus the Cronjob running a Pulumi program every X minutes?

Probably the main benefit is that you can hook it up to Flux or ArgoCD to trigger deployments (in the v2beta version). The latest version also reifies operations on a stack (like an update) into k8s resources in it's implementation, providing a foundation for more control if you want

thanks!