I find this article to be a little frustrating. It is kind of like a layperson going to a mechanic convention and saying "all I heard about was engines, brakes

I find this article to be a little frustrating. It is kind of like a layperson going to a mechanic convention and saying "all I heard about was engines, brakes and tires. Everyone is interested in tires". If you are not in the domain, then you will not understand why the 'devops' engineers are all looking at these things. Kudos to the developer for going to the conference and learning something new. Devops are exactly the same as Software Engineers. There are those people that just slap code together and do not care about design, tests or the longevity of the product. Devops can be the same where they just push the button in AWS, create some bash scripts and get things running. Then you have those Devops that approach building product and infrastructure in a repeatable, scalable, traceable fashion. They care about software engineering practices and building something to last. I work as something in between a platform engineer and ops. I run 4 kubernetes clusters in GCP, had to build up all the underlying resources (dbs, service accounts, storage, clusters) and get the product running on it. I use terraform for this, including kubernetes deployments, and it works quite well. Just like software engineers, devops/ops is under time constraints and have to hack things together. Whatever it takes to keep the business running...