Counterpoint from someone who did developer support back in the pre-cloud days. Even pre-virtualization, I could instantiate servers very rapidly with network

Counterpoint from someone who did developer support back in the pre-cloud days. Even pre-virtualization, I could instantiate servers very rapidly with network based imaging. With pre-staged templates of various os/program combinations. Applied them to both lab and production deployment. So that Dev, QA, and Prod could all work from the same base images. With versioning of the images based on patch level. Then I would subsequently get blamed for every program error by the dev team. With no other justification than "it worked in the lab. Fix your server!" Running a packet analyzer, I would often find things like queries trying to go to a lab db server rather than prod. Or a dependency on an out of date/unpatched/vulnerable version of some supporting software that the development team would then attempt to pressure into production rather than update their code. For every obstinate sysadmin you've encountered, there is an ops pro who has received a ticket with nothing but a list of compiler errors combined with 'pls fix asap'.