Kinda playing the devil’s advocate, but cloud solution aren’t inherently more complex than administrating a traditional linux. Thinking of securing the OS, con

Kinda playing the devil’s advocate, but cloud solution aren’t inherently more complex than administrating a traditional linux. Thinking of securing the OS, configuring a deploy mechanism, managing updates, dealing with lib compatibilities once you have more than 1 app running, etc. That’s a pretty vast and deep set of skills needed. You assume there is already one of such admin in the company, but going cloud first reduce all of the above to Docker/container knowledge, and understanding cloud configurations, which can go from a heroku setup, a GCE set of instances up to a small GKE cluster. You can introduce as much complexity as you are comfortable with.