When the cloud was young, devs could indeed push their own code. They didn't need the sysops people. It was a major change.
But as the cloud became more complex, invariably, SysOps just took on a whole new shape. Instead of buying hardware and keeping Ethernet boxes wired and alive, you now have K8s etc..
I suggest we have failed somewhere along the way: it shouldn't be necessary for real DevOps up to significant scale.
If our tooling were good enough, it should be mostly fairly automated.
'Containers' seem to be a messy, hacky afterthought when what we really probably just needed was 'configs'. Cloud Lambdas, Queing, Caching, Logging could be feasibly made very simply configed ... on all the Cloud Providers it's fairly complicated, just beyond the ability for a regular dev to stay on top of along with the rest of dev stuff.
But as the cloud became more complex, invariably, SysOps just took on a whole new shape. Instead of buying hardware and keeping Ethernet boxes wired and alive, you now have K8s etc..
I suggest we have failed somewhere along the way: it shouldn't be necessary for real DevOps up to significant scale.
If our tooling were good enough, it should be mostly fairly automated.
'Containers' seem to be a messy, hacky afterthought when what we really probably just needed was 'configs'. Cloud Lambdas, Queing, Caching, Logging could be feasibly made very simply configed ... on all the Cloud Providers it's fairly complicated, just beyond the ability for a regular dev to stay on top of along with the rest of dev stuff.