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I don’t mean this in a disparaging way because I too got my start in an environment like that, but that’s a very legacy environment. When I talk about core principles of working in IT, I mean the state of IT today in 2026, as well as where it’s headed in the future. It sounds like your workplace is one of those SMBs that’s still stuck in the glory days. Thats not what IT is it’s what IT was. And so unless you’re currently end of career, you’re going to have to give that up and embrace this new paradigm or be washed out eventually. So when I say “It isn’t the field for you” in the context of OP I just mean that it isn’t going to get better. It’ll be less and less like the way you know it every day, and more and more like the way OP doesn’t like it.
For example you say you are the most familiar in your entire workplace with “powershell and scripting”, however I literally got teased just the other day by solving a niche problem with a powershell script. “How very 2010 of you”.
I don’t say this to belittle you, as I was the same guy as you not too many years ago. And I get that you’re banging your head against this new paradigm, but this is the stuff you really do want to stick with IF it’s your goal to grow in IT long term. It will click eventually given enough time. I am definitely willing to help you with any questions you might have or perhaps if I have time I can try and demonstrate my workflow for a standard container deployment.
Some questions I would ask you are