I don't really see this tooling as a dynamic configuration language so much as a manifest generator. That means I also have tooling for diffing, debugging, and converging manifests. If you are just focused on configuration, I can see why Turing-completeness will seem like unnessary complexity.
I use classes and mixins to be able to generate similar manifests with slight differences across different clusters or environments. I sometimes use imports (I/O) for manifests provided by an upstream (such as from AWS docs), do transforms to get manifest I want.
I modelled the design off of Chef, which will also declaritively define and converge a set of systems towards desired state. Well-known paths and conventions helps keep things organized.
I havn't had a problem with dynamic typing, but I have also been using Ruby in application development for over 10 years. You might see it as unneeded complexity, but I have been able to use the flexibility for years now. This tooling was designed for a team that uses Ruby as the primary language, and uses designs and idom that would be familiar for a Ruby dev team. It is definitely opinionated and I don't expect it to be universally useful for everyone.
I use classes and mixins to be able to generate similar manifests with slight differences across different clusters or environments. I sometimes use imports (I/O) for manifests provided by an upstream (such as from AWS docs), do transforms to get manifest I want.
I modelled the design off of Chef, which will also declaritively define and converge a set of systems towards desired state. Well-known paths and conventions helps keep things organized.
I havn't had a problem with dynamic typing, but I have also been using Ruby in application development for over 10 years. You might see it as unneeded complexity, but I have been able to use the flexibility for years now. This tooling was designed for a team that uses Ruby as the primary language, and uses designs and idom that would be familiar for a Ruby dev team. It is definitely opinionated and I don't expect it to be universally useful for everyone.