The amount of time I've spent fiddling with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Jenkins configuration, GitHub Actions configuration, AWS IAM, and so on over the past few years is absurd, probably more than the time I've spent writing actual application code.
These tools have made deploying production quality infrastructure take a fraction of the time. These environments are basically already preaudited and verified. They’re also just much higher quality in general. It’s quite typical for different projects to share infrastructure in traditionally deployed systems but with devops we can have much better isolation with less deployment time.
I hope its not you. The whole idea was that there is a platform team responsible for providing a service or better yet the CSP does this for you and then you just have to architect as a platform team the things I listed above. It does not happen via magic. But the CSP platforms makes it certainly easier to provide a pre-audited version of the OS and tools.
You should be able to self-service yourself within say a developer like portal as part of an IDP as described here. Not figure out ALL of the infra yourself.
It all just feels like a collosal waste of energy and collective resources.
Yeah, because that's exactly what it is.