Think DevOps is all about writing cool Terraform scripts and sipping coffee while watching dashboards? Let me walk you through a real day in the life — fire drills, Slack storms, YAML headaches, and all.
⏰ 9:00 AM — The Fire Drill
Logged in to see PagerDuty alerts screaming. A broken Kubernetes deployment caused a service outage. Turns out someone manually changed a ConfigMap in staging without going through GitOps. Fix it. Patch it. Root cause it.
🧩 11:00 AM — Infra Improvements
Automating new microservice rollout using Terraform + Helm + ArgoCD. Set up reusable modules and CI pipelines to handle infra provisioning, DNS registration, and alert routing.
🍜 1:00 PM — Post-Lunch PR Reviews
Reviewing pull requests for:
- Adding
OPApolicy checks - Refactoring GitHub Actions workflows
- Migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions for a legacy repo
🧠 3:00 PM — Cross-Team Meeting
Product team wants faster deployments; security wants more gates. Trying to balance delivery speed with compliance and change control. Advocating for progressive delivery with feature flags.
💬 5:00 PM — Mentoring & Coaching
Helping junior devs understand CI concepts, git rebase, and Kubernetes manifests. Teaching why “just applying manually” is never the answer.
📦 6:30 PM — Wrap-up
Ending the day by documenting the day’s chaos, pushing updates to Confluence, and closing out Jira tickets. Tomorrow: an AWS Well-Architected Review.
