As DevOps professionals, a lot of our problem solving is more akin to using tools as they're given to us. Those tools force us to think a certain way, which can be sub-optimal at times. How do developers get around their tools working sub-optimal? They build something new to work around the limitation, or replace it altogether. We don't usually build anything new, and I'm jealous. So let's look at some DevOps engineering tasks and use a developer mindset to accomplish them by writing custom code to create more robust solutions.