[pm90]

Kubernetes allows for an opinionated way to deploy your applications with many good practices being a part of the deployment cycle. I would say that the tooling matters, and having _some_ common way of deploying applications is a great way to enable developers who may only want to focus on their code but also want more control over their deployment pipeline. In summary:

* enables dev teams to do their own ops (mostly) instead of having a centralized ops team which needs to set things up and be on call for stuff when it break. This allows scaling up your organization, since once a couple of teams are setup, you can simply keep adding more and more teams and replicate the same deployment pipeline to all

* trains development teams to do more ops level stuff without getting lost in the weeds. They no longer need to worry about DNS, SSL Certs, LoadBalancers etc., they just use kubernetes ingress and services. Of course they can dig more if they want to but the defaults appear to be sensible enough for most

* promotes a cattle v/s pets model and allows teams to rapidly iterate without worrying about breaking the system in unknown ways