As much as the industry likes to tout the good word of DevOps, there has always seemed to be a hierarchy. First comes the Dev. And then comes the Ops. It’s right there in the name! What if instead we were able to build out both application and operational implementations at the same time? Instead of Ops being the afterthought or the thing that we worry about after launch, we can instead ensure that these are treated with equal value and priority! How you might ask? With tools like Devcontainers and Grafana’s LGTM stack, we can take application and operational development with us wherever we go! Now instead of having to wait until our applications are deployed to some external environment, we can begin hacking at our code and dashboards right away. The benefit here is that now you can begin shipping both your artifacts and requirements right away, instead of having to wait until you ship your code to find out that your observability components might not work at all! In this talk we’ll introduce attendees to Devcontainers, how to set up an environment that includes your application and an observability environment and show a small example of how you can increase your operational and development velocity by utilizing this approach.