I don't have the same experience. At my previous job, the developers were only expected to provide a Docker image with a list of requirements to run it (volume

I don't have the same experience. At my previous job, the developers were only expected to provide a Docker image with a list of requirements to run it (volumes, environment, configuration). Then it was my job to write the Helm chart and CI/CD pipeline. It was also my job to teach the developers to be autonomous on that aspect. I never got a job where developers were expected to know how to deal with (pre)production servers. Except maybe in startups where everyone is expected to do everything because you never got enough people with the right skill. I even got a developer in my team who didn't even know that Kubernetes existed while the company was migrating from on-premise to Kubernetes (and probably still does not).