Having a team that runs the kubernetes for you and being on receiving end is indeed super easy. Need another microservice? Just add another repository, add short yaml, push it to CI and bam!, it's online.
But setting it up is not a trivial task and often a recipe for disaster.
I've seen a fair share of startups who took too much kool aid and wanted parrot FANG stacks just to discover they are burning tons of money just trying to deploy their first hello world application.
The irony is the whole devops and cloud sales pitch was developers can do all this themselves and you no longer need an sysadmin team. Turns out you still do, it’s just called the devops/cloud team and not sys admin team.
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