Don't worry, they're doing everything they can to lock down Kubernetes as well. EKS, GKE, AKS... and the managers look at this and go "it's a managed service, we don't need to pay an engineer, buy it!"

Of course, the whole "not needing engineers" bit is a lie of the highest magnitude, but the marketing was really well done.

Could you expand on this? what do you mean by locking it down? EKS, GKE, AKS, and OKS (Oracle has their own now) and IBM's CKE are all wins to me. While I personally don't think people should be trying to tune Kubernetes into heroku (IMO you should build a layer on top of kubernetes for that), people are trying and succeeding in making it way easier to run applications on it.

Dumb managers are gonna do dumb stuff no matter what, but judging by how the widespread use of AWS did not in fact mean hiring less developers, it just changed the kind you needed to hire. I feel like the job posting just changed from sysadmin to sysadmin (for actual in-company computer management) + devops (for tech-side server management)?

That said, I'm also kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on Kubernetes, it just seems too good to be true (minus the complexity of learning it of course). Well, thinking about it, I use gmail so maybe I traded my privacy in small part for this.

This is what companies like Rancher are designed to handle: https://rancher.com/what-is-rancher/overview/