[wecloudpro]

If you use Kubernetes, you need custom operators and controllers in order to a have feature rich environment that can support your applications and support all CI/CD instrumentation.

Then, for designing, implementing and maintaining all these extra elements is why you need a devops guy. Also not mentioning how extremely fast things are moving in the cloud era.

[js4ever]

Indeed a lot of things in k8s are deprecated every 6 months, and in fact your super solid future proof stack is completely useless after a year. It's like building above quicksand.