There are people with a specific huge vested interest in making sure you always feel that way. So that alone is a good reason to try to resist that feeling. No

There are people with a specific huge vested interest in making sure you always feel that way. So that alone is a good reason to try to resist that feeling. Not just for the obvious reason to grow your abilities, because you can say exactly the same about everything and you can't become expert in everything. But simply because someone makes a lot of money off of you if you feel like you need them, and they are big enough to do many indirect things and change the entire environment to make you feel you need them and never even question it, and suffer essentially ostricisation if you ever do question it. Making those baby sysadmin mistakes is perfectly fine. Everyone must make them. Are you ever going to forget to secure the access to any db after that? That is not only one specific conig but an entire class of problem that you are alert to now. Not only is it ok because it's low stakes and then you know better for high stakes at work after that, but really even at work it should be normal to suffer a breakage once in a while, because at work it's even more important that you know how to recover when it inevitably happens anyway even without making mistakes. I don't mean break things on purpose, I just mean if you never suffer a problem, you never become prepared to deal with a problem. That is not good. Besides, no matter what you still suffer equivalent problems, cloud or no cloud. What's the difference between your db going down from a hardware fault or misconfig, or a cloud account getting killed because of a billing or tos error? Also, k8s actually makes an otherwise manageable system into a daunting one. All in all, more and better reasons to be brave than to be afraid.