Working with devs and infrastructure to deliver your product

Being a DevOps engineer means being the ultimate team player. It also means you have to socialize with and be somewhat liked by practically everyone on your team. And honestly, it’s not that hard; laugh at their awkward jokes and make a little small talk and suddenly you’re everyone’s friend. It’s not that hard to get people to work together if you want to. It is, however, quite difficult, some of the time, to get their efforts to coordinate with yours. This is why we have collaboration tools. Besides ordinary GitHub, we have all sorts of tools for whatever development model you are using. Jira, Slack, Zoom, Google Chat, Teams… I could go on forever. What happens quite often is that a lot of teams use multiple collaboration tools. So, the question then becomes, how do we get these collaboration tools to collaborate with each other?

There are a lot of connectors that the tools themselves...