Ah, got it. We've discussed exactly this (within Google) with some of the Kubernetes maintainers who have similar wishes to yourself. The most immediate z-pages related work is focused on making them better in the more general case, as they're extremely barebones at the moment and are specific to each language's library. After that we'll explore the native Kubernetes integrations that you're asking for.

It'll come, but it's going to take some time.