What is the future of DevOps in the age of serverless? Can you see less and less DevOps roles being available in the age of serverless?
I personally dislike the DevOps Engineer role as DevOps is a culture! What you probably mean is whether Operations or System Engineers will be phased out. Like the other answers indicate, these activities will still be required, but the number of such activities and roles will decrease.
I personally feel very pressured by the shift to the cloud. Back in the day, I was replacing servers in Datacenter racks, provision them using PXEboot and puppet, monitoring and maintaining them, but now one can just create new servers in the cloud very easily. So basically if I would be stubborn and ignore the cloud I will be substituted out in a couple of years. I really feel that I personally should run everything in production in cloud and k8s as soon as possible and that is why I try to get productive with for example Spring Boot to create business value for the company.
I would argue that every engineer should deploy apps in the cloud automatically and should find a way to create business value for the company by complying to industry standards, e.g. terraform, cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), container-orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), containers (Docker or Rockit).
