I'm familiar, thanks. Keeping both ops and app in the same repo is one thing, but combining parts of them in code is a pretty amateur Separation of Concerns flaw and will inevitably break. I'm not sure what you're defending here.
The app can still use environment variables and be completely independent (12 factor), but the Dockerfile/Kubernetes config still needs to provide those things, so there is a clear distinction between ops and dev, they're just more mingled than previously.
