Building anything in this space is so time-consuming and needs just to be commoditized.

Author of the post here - this has been a trend that seems to be taking hold as platform organizations are evolving. I've seen a trend where edicts come down on high, but the engineering leader never tried the flow.

The only pre-reqs are cloud based and docker. We can work with k8s, ecs, etc.

docs.prodvana.io has a few tutorials showing how to setup in minutes.

A good overview of why legacy CD systems cause so much pain in cloud-native environments

what is a devops task? I normally just call this work.