On the migrations... read the comments through this thread.. there are many, and none have mentioned any significant pain points at all, just hypothetical ones from people like you who aren't actually actively using it.
As to the CI/CD pipelines... I just edited my .github/workflow/* to bump the target version, and off to the races... though if you're deploying to bare metal as opposed to containers, it does take a couple extra steps.
As to the "permission to install..." that's what happens when companies don't trust the employees that already write the software that can make or break the company anyway... Defelopers should have local admin privs, or a jump box (rdp) that does... or at the very least a linux environment you can remote-develop on that, again, has local admin privs.
I'm in a locked down environment currently, for a govt agency and hasn't been an issue. Similar for past environments which include major banking institutions.
As to the CI/CD pipelines... I just edited my .github/workflow/* to bump the target version, and off to the races... though if you're deploying to bare metal as opposed to containers, it does take a couple extra steps.
As to the "permission to install..." that's what happens when companies don't trust the employees that already write the software that can make or break the company anyway... Defelopers should have local admin privs, or a jump box (rdp) that does... or at the very least a linux environment you can remote-develop on that, again, has local admin privs.
I'm in a locked down environment currently, for a govt agency and hasn't been an issue. Similar for past environments which include major banking institutions.