The entire contemporary devops process is awfully convoluted. In fact, I've heard DevOps people call themselves "yaml engineers". Often in your docker compose there is some stupid error, there are 3 versions of Docker compose files, there are 7 ways to do something, Docker CLI manual can be printed in 1000 pages and we've created extremely bloated (despite of caching whatever) CI/CD. For what? Dependencies? Let's download 4.5 GB of images because my app needs to be reproduceable.

I tried reading about Kubernetes. Holyshit what a monster we've created. I am sure there is going to be an orchestrator abstraction for multiple Kubernetes clusters. And then we have environment variables, secrets, access keys, a bazillion different parameters that need to trickle down from Gitlab CI settings all the way to the app through many layers.

Good lord. All engineers should be ashamed of this mess. We've forgotten how to build simple, beautiful, lean and parsimonious software. Instead of writing logic, I am configurating things all day.

Let there be a day where there is some deep compiler problem and this entire house of cards comes crashing down because your DevOps team ain't gonna know what happened down in lower abstraction layers. But, let's shit on the F-35 program everytime there is a Lockheed article on HN. Because surely, software engineers are the smart bunch ya. I know, I am unreasonably obtuse here, but jeez, no one complains about today's deployment process,... its apparently accepted without a question.