Let’s paint a picture of developers in the modern cloud native setup: The tooling landscape is rapidly growing, both in terms of volume and complexity. Organizations’ engineering setups often demand that developers have an end-to-end understanding of not only Kubernetes, but infrastructure provisioning, deployment pipelines and configuration management as well.
Kubernetes is one brick in this wall of complexity for developers.
In some DevOps setups, developers lack the confidence to get their hands dirty.
Overall, internal developer platforms enable dev and Ops to focus on the core responsibilities and strengths of their jobs.