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.
Are you thinking to add more parameters as environment
variables?
I think at the end of the day you will keep getting requests from users to support more and more features and it will ended up as a any other SaaS service.
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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.