Why you need a platform team for Kubernetes — Polar Squad

This is a known thing now, yes you need to have a team that owns this part of your technology stack. The TL;DR version could simply be: "Kubernetes is complicated, why would you make everyone learn it." The hard part to me is knowing how far that platform function should go vertically. Yes, have one team that manages it like a product. That is horizontal. But what features and functions vertically should they defer to the infrastructure below, and the applications above.