OP gets it.

Right now, I’m one dinosaur managing a startup’s tech portfolio. Everything lives in my head first, then in my break-glass vault for addressing the bus problem. Our public cloud footprint is a single KMS for backups. We have no VMs, everything is a cloud service.

The literal fucking second we have real infrastructure requirements for compute, it’s right to GCE. No ifs, ands, or buts. Here’s our Git Repo, here’s the managed K8s control plane, make it work.

If (or when) we need on-prem compute, we add them to the K8s control plane as worker nodes and taint accordingly.

It’s just so much more interchangeable, even if the learning curve for non-SDEs can be a little steeper than VMs.