[throwaway122379]

My job is 50% dev 50% devops/sre i would say.

One thing I noticed about whole SRE/devops scene lately is that there seems to be no grasp of the KISS principle, there are people building elaborate glass houses on top of k8s (tho k8s+pipelines is very useful its easy to get carried away)

another observation is that the people who are not good programmers but are good at appearing to get stuff done (but who create tons of tech debt) seem to fall naturally into SRE roles, as there is no testing culture in pipeline driven development

SRE currently is like the wild west, it be many years before it starts to resemble engineering

[abhiyerra]

This. I run opsZero and the amount of CI/CD implementations I see in different infrastructures is crazy. Most code is not tested or overtly complex and every DevOps person seems to reinvent the wheel a hundred different ways.

Living in the world of Terraform, Kubernetes, and helm has been a godsend because it codifies deployments into a few buckets that removes a lot of this custom code. To be honest I’m thinking the days of DevOps may be numbered.