Ask HN: A Microsoft engineer is hoping to hear your devops pains

Hey Hacker News, I'm an engineer at Microsoft in the Cloud and Enterprise division - one of the happy outcomes of the last few years is that we now have the freedom to talk directly with people about the problems they're facing. An area in which we think we've potentially underserved customers is in the devops arena - many of our toolchains are tuned for The Old Ways, and sometimes don't offer the flexibility/composability of alternate solutions. It's typically pretty easy for us to talk with people who already use our stuff; we have conferences, hosted forums, etc, that give us insight into how to tune things we've already built for existing customers. What I'm hoping for are some thoughts from people who don't use our tools, even if it's for philosophical rather than practical reasons. You certainly don't need to be a Windows user - we're not wed to any particular technology; we just want to build things that people find use