> Learning how to build and ship it correctly isn't a lot of effort, averaged over years of work.
As someone who worked for years at a company that delivered tools in the devops space, I think you're overlooking the difference between someone who deploys apps to Kubernetes and someone who sets up and maintains kubernetes clusters on bare metal hardware that they procured.
The dev may understand a lot of things about kubernetes, but the devops person is doing a lot of things behind the scenes that the dev should never have to worry about.
As someone who worked for years at a company that delivered tools in the devops space, I think you're overlooking the difference between someone who deploys apps to Kubernetes and someone who sets up and maintains kubernetes clusters on bare metal hardware that they procured.
The dev may understand a lot of things about kubernetes, but the devops person is doing a lot of things behind the scenes that the dev should never have to worry about.