DevOps services bridge the gap between development and operations, enhancing collaboration, automation, and deployment speed. How has adopting DevOps improved your workflow? Share your experiences, tools you use, and best practices for continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring in real-world projects.
Great topic, @spiralmantra!
DevOps has completely changed the way our team handles software delivery. Before adopting it, releases were chaotic - long deployment windows, last-minute bugs, and way too many “it works on my machine” moments 
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Once we embraced CI/CD pipelines (we’re using GitHub Actions + Azure DevOps), everything started to flow smoother. Automated testing and containerization with Docker made deployments predictable, and our feedback loops got way tighter.
One thing that really stood out for us was the culture shift - DevOps isn’t just tools; it’s communication. Our dev and ops folks actually collaborate now instead of tossing issues over the wall.
Curious, what tools or stacks are you (or others here) finding most effective for continuous delivery and monitoring? I’m always looking to tweak our workflow.
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Thanks for sharing @anne_alice — love your DevOps journey! 
Totally agree, it’s more about culture than just tools. At Spiral Mantra, we use Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Kubernetes, with Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring. Curious — what’s been most effective in your monitoring setup?
Thanks, @spiralmantra - Love that stack, we’ve been considering adding Terraform into our workflow, so it’s great to hear it’s working well for you.
For monitoring, we’re using Azure Monitor and Application Insights right now, but I’ve been curious about Prometheus + Grafana for more flexibility and visualization options. Do you find it integrates smoothly with Azure DevOps?
@anne_alice Absolutely! Terraform’s been a game-changer for consistency and scalability. And yes — Prometheus + Grafana integrate quite smoothly with Azure DevOps through exporters and webhooks. You can easily visualize pipeline metrics and alerts in real time. Definitely worth exploring!