Grafana Labs introduced Tanka, an open-source tool designed to improve the process of deploying to Kubernetes by leveraging the Jsonnet language. Unlike YAML, which is static and often cumbersome for managing complex configurations, Jsonnet offers dynamic capabilities such as abstraction and conditional logic, making it more suitable for Kubernetes deployments. Tanka emerged as a response to the limitations of existing tools like Helm and the discontinued ksonnet project, providing a streamlined workflow that includes show, diff, and apply commands without imposing additional conceptual overhead. It focuses on environment awareness by tying configurations to specific namespaces within clusters and ensures outputs are at least valid JSON, reducing logical errors. Tanka remains unobtrusive by allowing users to import existing YAML files and simply converting Jsonnet to YAML for Kubernetes. The project is actively developed with contributions encouraged, and future enhancements are planned to address issues such as better packaging support and garbage collection.