On the contrary, nobody was thinking of the sysadmins (until we injected the notion of Operators rather late).
Devs chose K8s, I think the evangelism phrase was “developer dopamine”. It felt like the Rails of DIY infra, where devs could inherit an opinioned pattern for doing n>1.
There’s still decades of resentment of devs being gated by IT.
Is that so? My experience is the opposite: devs don't want to learn Kubernetes YAML, they just want to git push and have someone else take care of deployment.
Devs chose K8s, I think the evangelism phrase was “developer dopamine”. It felt like the Rails of DIY infra, where devs could inherit an opinioned pattern for doing n>1.
There’s still decades of resentment of devs being gated by IT.