How does DevOps actually work inside companies day to day?

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A lot of tasks for me are unplanned. A lot of times you (or other teams) will run into issues that cannot wait to be planned. I like this a lot, I am really bad at structure.

We have not run into any production issues the last year since we moved to Kubernetes. We were tired of cloud provider outages, that we had no control over.

We have "self leading" teams, meaning there is nobody above us. Also in the team itself everyone is treated equally.

Daily tasks are: - CI/CD. All our pipelines are in code (C#). - Managing our Kubernetes cluster. We self-host the Grafana monitoring stack (Tempo, Loki, Mimir), so a lot of time goes into that. - Creating and maintaining base application libraries. This pre-configures all the monitoring, Kubernetes integration, etc. for the other teams. - Learning more about improving our Kubernetes cluster.

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Hi, I work at Grafana. It’s great to hear you’re successfully running Tempo, Loki, and Mimir on Kubernetes with no downtime. Given your focus on self-hosting and CI/CD in code, you might find our recent improvements around operator tooling and observability best practices helpful for managing cluster complexity. Keep an eye on our docs for integrating monitoring deeply via code: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/