Yes, definitely some of it can be simplified or automated. I've been migrating various apps from a docker-compose to a kubernetes environment. Spending a day writing a solid prompt document and running some agent on the repos involved has drastically sped up my workflow.

The integration hell isn't much easier, but I spend _far_ less time actually writing configurations, yaml files, looking up docs, etc, which frees up my time so that I can deal with the workplace politics involved... actually, maybe I want to go back.