Kubernetes makes running containers at scale possible, but it doesn’t make it simple. Shipping an app is rarely about kubectl apply . Before your code ever touches the cluster, you’re building images, scanning for vulnerabilities, wiring up configs, enforcing policies, stitching together CI/CD, and plugging in logs, metrics, and traces. Every step requires picking a tool, integrating it, and keeping that integration healthy as everything changes around it. It’s doable — but tedious. And it pulls your focus away from what you actually came here to do: ship reliable software without fighting the platform. App Platform for LKE removes this overhead with a pre-engineered, fully integrated pipeline built entirely on open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools .…