> I'd argue that kubernetes was really made to remove sysadmin from being needed. For large kubes obviously some skill is needed but in the average case a devel

> I'd argue that kubernetes was really made to remove sysadmin from being needed. For large kubes obviously some skill is needed but in the average case a developer can do 99.9% of all the work needed. It was a huge boon for businesses that would otherwise have to pay both developers and sysadmins. Now they can pay one of them half the value! > The majority of other sysadmin tasks have been offloaded to cloud providers Yes. There is a word for this process: deskilling — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling It is typically followed or accompanied by a loss of autonomy and/or other privileges in the workplace