Know What's Happening in DevOps
Know What's Happening in DevOps
In this episode, Pete outlines Semaphore's new AI-driven assistant that streamlines CI/CD onboarding by converting natural language descriptions into fully configured pipelines. The assistant also offers ongoing workflow insights, error explanations, reruns, and configuration suggestions while preserving full developer control and transparency. He emphasizes that AI is meant to reduce repetitive toil, not replace developers, and highlights the upcoming milestone of a seamless repository-to-working workflow experience. A demo video is available on the blog, and future plans include deeper automation around testing and quality.
Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, spotlighting how Kubernetes is deployed beyond data centers into resource‑constrained, distributed environments. Since its 2022 debut, the co‑located event has grown alongside the edge ecosystem, now featuring AI, telco, data, and...
Everyone has ClaudeCode. The edge is how efficiently you spend tokens, not how much you spend. Agreed?
Hamel Husain released evals‑skills, an open‑source plugin that equips AI coding agents with a toolbox for product‑specific evaluation. The package introduces an eval‑audit skill that inspects six diagnostic areas of an evaluation pipeline and a suite of targeted skills for...
Pulumi announced that its Insights platform can now be run on customer‑managed workflow runners, allowing enterprises to execute discovery scans and policy evaluations within their own infrastructure. The self‑hosted option supports both SaaS Pulumi Cloud and self‑hosted installations, and works...
Kubernetes Cheat Sheet. 28 commands. Production-ready usage. If you’re working with Kubernetes, these are not optional. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for more. #kubernetes #devops #k8s #cloudengineer #sre #platformengineering
Kubernetes production errors you must know: CrashLoopBackOff ImagePullBackOff OOMKilled Pod Pending Ingress 502/503 RBAC Forbidden ConfigMap not updating DNS failures If you can explain the root cause and fix for these, you’re ahead of most DevOps engineers. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for production-focused DevOps content. #kubernetes #devops #k8s #cloudengineer #sre #cloudnative
Red Hat’s acquisition of Chatterbox Labs has enabled a joint effort with Amazon’s Nova Responsible AI team to embed advanced safety testing into generative AI development. The collaboration introduced the AIMI platform’s Progressive Attack Escalation technique, allowing early detection of...
Operational LLM engineering is about cost predictability. Model selection matters, but token flow design determines whether your system survives real traffic.
Amazon Web Services reported a power outage in its UAE ME‑CENTRAL‑1 availability zone after unknown objects struck the datacenter, sparking a fire that temporarily halted EC2 APIs. Meanwhile, Australian software firm WiseTech Global announced up to 2,000 job cuts as...
Last year we announced the Vercel Dubai region (𝚍𝚡𝚋𝟷) on AWS 𝚖𝚎-𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕-𝟷. A region is made up of multiple availability zones (AZs). The AWS availability zone 𝚖𝚎𝚌𝟷-𝚊𝚣𝟸 just got 💥 bombed. Our primary traffic ingress AZ has been unaffected. Fluid functions are...
When LLMs generate or modify code, context must include relevant files, not the entire repository. Targeted retrieval keeps outputs accurate and budgets stable.
IT is transitioning from a back‑office system provider to a strategic, customer‑facing partner that drives end‑to‑end change. Leaders are urged to co‑create transformation roadmaps, adopt outcome‑based KPIs, and build modular, API‑first platforms that reduce duplication. Lightweight, proportional governance combined with...
The author rewrote a serverless weather‑checking workflow from AWS Step Functions to the newly announced Lambda Durable Functions, publishing both implementations on GitHub. Both versions perform identical tasks—polling OpenWeatherMap every ten minutes and updating a static S3 site—but the coding...
The article presents a step‑by‑step tutorial that builds a production‑grade MLflow workflow, covering tracking server setup, nested hyperparameter sweeps, automatic logging, model evaluation, and live REST‑API serving. It demonstrates how to configure a SQLite backend, use MLflow autologging for scikit‑learn...
The piece frames generative‑AI coding agents as a complex problem space within the Cynefin framework, emphasizing that prompt‑to‑output behavior is inherently unpredictable. Unlike traditional developer tools that sit in clear or complicated domains, LLM‑driven agents require safe‑to‑fail experiments, rapid feedback,...
These Git errors are asked in DevOps interviews. 10 common Git errors. 10 quick fixes. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for more. #DevOps #DevOpsEngineer #Git #GitTips #GitCommands #VersionControl #CI_CD #Kubernetes #CloudComputing #SoftwareEngineering
I'll write more about this later, but I've spent the past few days hooking up libghostty with AFL++ and fuzzing various parts of it and agents make the full path of fuzz => verify with test case => minimize =>...
Obsidian has released a headless client for its Sync service, allowing vaults to be synchronized via a command‑line interface instead of the desktop app. The tool supports one‑time and continuous sync, can be driven by an authentication token for non‑interactive...
GenAI isn't just a coding accelerator - it's a resiliency play. Translate governance policies to cloud-native controls (IAM, network, data, backups) per provider, then use AI to continuously detect drift and generate remediation plans. #SRE #AI https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
Terrific thread on agent orchestration architectures. "If an agent started making confident but wrong decisions, how many actions would execute before I could stop it?" The three magic words are "observability", "control flow ownership", and "interruption".
The NDSS 2025 paper JBomAudit presents the first systematic study of Java Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), analyzing 25,882 SBOMs and their associated JAR files. It finds that 7,907 SBOMs (about 30%) omit direct dependencies, and 4.97% of those hidden...
Love to see it! Prediction: within a couple years the terminal GUI will no longer be the primary interface to agents, but there's going to be a hell of a lot of libghostty because agents are going to be increasingly...
💡 If you’re moving into DevOps, start documenting everything you build. Architecture diagrams, tradeoffs, failures. ✨ Hiring managers care more about your thinking than your syntax. ✨
The Grafana "Big Tent" podcast highlighted the rise of agentic AI in observability, featuring Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos and Grafana engineers. They discussed how AI agents use knowledge graphs to automate root‑cause analysis and troubleshoot production incidents. A real‑world example...
If you work with Linux servers, basic partitions won’t always be enough. That’s where LVM helps. In real systems, storage needs grow. Logs, apps, databases — everything expands. With LVM you can: • Resize storage more easily • Combine multiple disks • Extend space when...
Fix Slowness In Pipelines ✅ If your pipeline takes 15+ minutes, you designed it wrong. Smart caching. Parallel jobs. Conditional security. Dedicated runners. That’s real DevOps. Save this post. Follow @Devopsshack for senior-level breakdowns. #DevOpsEngineer #CICDPipeline #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #Docker #Automation #InfraAsCode
Kubernetes will retire the community‑maintained Ingress‑NGINX controller in March 2026, prompting users to migrate to alternatives such as Gateway API. The blog outlines five unexpected Ingress‑NGINX behaviors—case‑insensitive regex matching, global use‑regex impact, implicit regex from rewrite‑target, automatic trailing‑slash redirects, and URL...
In the next version of Claude Code.. We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone. Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to...
RT I compare this genAI moment to early web and cloud eraswhen transformation only happened after we changed practices (agile, DevOps, design thinking), not just technology. Same story, new stakes. #CIO #AI #DigitalTransformation @Star_CIO https://t.co/xfrVmpSIJN
Omnissa CEO Shankar Iyer will headline IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026, showcasing the company’s AI‑driven digital work platform that merges endpoint management, virtual desktops and security into a single control plane. The platform is positioned as a frictionless, adaptive...
Datapoint or a trend Neoclouds need optimization from underutilization This is where distributed orchestration like @YottaLabs shines
Queues are one of the most requested services since I started Vercel. They're now here. It's just two APIs: 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 and 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 😌. The use-cases are basically infinite. Notably: queues can make agents and AI apps reliable. Quality and reliability are top...
BackstageCon, the dedicated conference for the Backstage developer portal, returns as a co‑located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The program emphasizes AI‑enabled platform engineering, showcasing sessions on managing AI software catalogs, integrating Kubeflow, and extending Backstage with runtime...
Salesforce introduced the Agentic Work Unit (AWU) metric on its earnings call, positioning it as a way for CIOs to quantify the output of AI‑driven agents. The metric pairs the number of discrete actions performed with token consumption to suggest...
Analyst firm ReveCom found that the world’s largest cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean—deploy the overwhelming majority of their containerized workloads on virtual machines rather than on bare‑metal servers. Benchmark data shows VM‑hosted containers achieve roughly 99 % of bare‑metal...
You tweak a prompt. It looks better. You ship it. A week later: - quality dips - costs rise - edge cases break Most teams “improve” prompts without proving anything. A/B testing for LLMs isn’t about ego. It’s about real users, real workloads, real cost. Here’s how to...
The article outlines how Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning can be tightly integrated to create a unified intelligence pipeline. Databricks handles large‑scale data ingestion, cleaning, and feature engineering using Spark and Delta Lake, while Azure ML supplies model versioning,...
Vulnerability management platforms must evolve beyond basic scanning to address today’s complex attack surface. Core capabilities now include automated asset discovery, continuous scanning with real‑time risk scoring, integrated remediation workflows, threat‑intelligence enrichment, and compliance‑aligned reporting. These functions enable security teams...
A recent outage showed that infinite default HTTP timeouts let slow downstream calls consume resources until user‑perceived latency caused revenue loss. The Product Service waited indefinitely for a currency API, saturating thread pools and cascading delays across unrelated requests. Fixing...
Security researchers discovered a malicious Go module, github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto, that masquerades as the legitimate golang.org/x/crypto library. The backdoored ReadPassword function captures plaintext credentials, writes them to /usr/share/nano/.lock, and exfiltrates them via a dynamically supplied GitHub Raw URL. After exfiltration, the module pulls and...
If you’re getting into DevOps, don’t jump straight into Kubernetes. I see this mistake all the time. First, get comfortable with: • Linux • Networking • Git • Docker • One cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP) A lot of people say, “DevOps is too hard.” Most of...
Leaders at the OpenGov Breakfast in Singapore warned that cloud migration alone fails to deliver value without end‑to‑end observability. They emphasized that real‑time visibility across infrastructure, data pipelines, and workflows enables proactive, insight‑driven decisions, reduces risk, and fuels trustworthy AI...
Canonical released LXD 6.7, the latest update to its container and virtual‑machine manager for Ubuntu. The release introduces AMD GPU passthrough support using the new AMD CDI interface and a gpu_cdi_amd extension. It also upgrades VM GPU passthrough with newer QEMU...
The author used Claude Code’s Opus 4.6 model to refactor the large ExecutableRequest class in the RestAssured.Net library, creating a new RequestBodyFactory and consolidating arguments into a RequestBodySettings object. Guardrails such as excluding test files, manual code review, and incremental...
Harness announced the evolution of its Chaos Engineering module into a broader Resilience Testing platform, adding native load and disaster‑recovery testing capabilities. The new suite builds on the open‑source LitmusChaos project and Harness’s 2022 acquisition of Chaos Native, integrating AI‑driven...
Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform is shifting IT automation from simple time‑saving scripts to a strategic business asset that delivers measurable reliability, security and revenue protection. Industry research shows 72% of enterprises juggle 50+ tools, creating visibility gaps and governance risks...
Not sure why I have been sleeping on tmux so long. It pairs so nicely with agentic CLI tools
Stop (only) scanning for bad code, start generating good defaults. Ep #135 explains how AI is turning 'controls as code' into an automated reality for developers. 💻 https://t.co/vDuusPGcqc
By 2026 Amazon Bedrock has evolved into a serverless platform that delivers managed agents, built‑in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation and guardrails, while Amazon SageMaker remains the full‑stack workbench for custom model training, massive‑scale distributed jobs and hardware‑optimized inference. Bedrock now supports fine‑tuning...
