[barrkel]

K8s establishes a pattern for implementing many ops tasks as controllers rather than scripts or configs. The level of abstraction will be raised, and more and more of the custom hacks specific to individual companies will become modules you deploy on your cluster.

In this way, devs will be doing ops, but not as ops for any given prod environment, rather encoding operational tasks in reusable software.

Ops themselves will bifurcate, one towards configuring prebuilt controllers, others towards troubleshooting problems in production. The middle ground will hollow out.