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+# Manifests
+
+One of the main gripes about Kubernetes, is the management of YAML and the need to making the YAML turing complete with templates, logic, wrappers, and management utilities.
+
+The YAML merely represents the specific values of an instance of a struct in Go.
+
+We can easily adopt the "define your application in a manifest" paradigm, without actually using any of the native aurae functions to mutate a system.
+
+### Simple Manifest
+
+This manifest can be sourced from higher level applications, or even other aurae scripts.
+Application teams will be able to define their applications directly as valid aurae code.
+
+Notice how the application can be defined without connecting to an Aurae system, or accessing any of the subsystems at runtime.
+
+```typescript
+// ingress.aurae
+
+let nginx = container("nginx-container-001");
+nginx.image("nginx:latest");
+nginx.expose(80);
+nginx.env("key", "val");
+
+let ingress = pod("ingress-001");
+ingress.add(nginx);
+
+```
+
+### Turing Complete Logic
+
+Application teams can easily use turing complete logical syntax for their manifests. 
+
+If statements, conditions, loops, and more are all possible in their application definition.
+
+```typescript
+// ingress.aurae
+
+// Define a flag to expose the pod or not.
+let production = false;
+
+let nginx = container("nginx-container-001");
+nginx.image("nginx:latest");
+nginx.expose(80);
+nginx.env("key", "val");
+
+let ingress = pod("ingress-001");
+
+if production {
+  ingress.expose(80); // Only expose in production
+}
+
+ingress.add(nginx);
+
+```