[FEATURE] stacks, profiles, deployments, and providers

[brandonbloom]

This is a placeholder/tracking issue for a variety of interrelated future-looking features in and around the topics of deployments & production, as well as remote development containers.

Prior Art

Docker and Docker Compose

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/context/working-with-contexts/
• https://docs.docker.com/compose/profiles/

Pulumi

• First-class providers: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/#explicit-provider-configuration

Terraform

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/providers/configuration.html

Open Questions

• How do push and pull fit in?
• Generalizing containers to services makes scale (replica count) relevant. How does that interact?
• How to handle conditional components or conditional desired state? For instance: Which services should start when you apply a manifest?
• Which things are named?
• So, so many more...