I think that any kind of “modern ops” necessarily includes coding, even if there isn’t a ton of Python or Rust being generated as part of the workflow.
Kubernetes deployment configurations and Ansible playbooks are code. PromQL is code. Dockerfiles and cloud-init scripts are code. Terraform HCL is code.
It’s all code I personally hate writing, but that doesn’t make it less valid “software development” than (say) writing React code.
These things are not nearly equivalent. It’s writing code, it’s not software engineering.
Correct, it’s systems engineering.
It's configuration management, systems engineering is low level imo
I think you have it backwards. Systems engineering is the big picture discipline of designing & managing complex systems while config management is a specific process within that.