K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom K0rdent Template From Scratch
The blog details how the authors built a fully declarative K3s cluster on a Proxmox on‑premise environment using k0rdent’s Bring‑Your‑Own‑Template (BYOT) approach. They created a custom Helm chart to serve as a k0rdent infrastructure provider that clones existing Proxmox VM templates, then layered a control‑plane provider and a K3s bootstrap provider to assemble the cluster. The workflow automates VM provisioning, control‑plane configuration, and Kubernetes installation, turning a traditionally manual, script‑heavy process into a repeatable, GitOps‑style pipeline. The result is a reproducible, scalable on‑prem Kubernetes deployment that can be torn down or expanded with a single configuration change.
Combine Claude, Gemini, and Codex for Unstoppable Automation
Having Claude Code and Gemini do the work and having Codex review is OP. You can literally have this setup for anything
Cloudflare Unveils Code Mode MCP Server to Slash AI Agent Token Costs
Cloudflare announced a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built on its Code Mode platform, aimed at dramatically lowering the token consumption of large language model agents when they call Cloudflare's APIs. The move targets cost‑sensitive AI‑driven DevOps workflows and...
GitLab 18.11 Brings Agentic AI to Security Fixes, CI Pipelines, and Delivery Analytics
GitLab unveiled version 18.11, extending its agentic AI across security remediation, CI pipeline creation, and delivery analytics. The GA Agentic SAST Vulnerability Resolution automatically generates fixes for true‑positive findings and opens merge requests with confidence scores. Two new agents—CI Expert...
6 Postman Alternatives So Good, I Almost Forgot Postman
The article reviews six leading Postman alternatives for 2025—APIdog, Bruno, Kong Insomnia, Stoplight, SwaggerHub, and Thunder Client—detailing their core strengths, pricing tiers and open‑source status. APIdog offers an all‑in‑one platform for development, documentation and schema generation at $9 per user per month. Bruno...
Quickplay Rolls Out Gray Media’s AI‑Powered OTT Platform in 113 U.S. Markets
Quickplay announced today that Gray Media’s next‑generation, cloud‑native streaming platform is live in all 113 of the broadcaster’s legacy markets. Built on Google Cloud AI, the system unifies more than 1,300 digital touchpoints and serves 37% of U.S. TV households,...
HCI Cuts Infrastructure Setup From Months to Minutes
My friends in infrastructure and operations geek out over HCI, and for good reasons. Months to configure infrastructure for new applications were reduced to minutes. #ITOps #Cloud https://t.co/v3MPhHTyuw
Parasail Secures $32 Million Series A to Launch AI Supercloud for Developers
Parasail announced a $32 million Series A round, co‑led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, to accelerate its AI Supercloud platform that lets developers spin up inference and training endpoints in minutes. The funding brings the startup’s total capital to $42 million...
Leapwork Launches AI‑Powered Continuous Validation Platform to Secure Rapid DevOps Pipelines
Leapwork ApS introduced its AI‑based Continuous Validation Platform, an automated solution that validates every line of code—human or AI‑generated—across the software lifecycle. The move targets the growing “trust gap” as enterprises accelerate releases with generative AI, and it comes as...
Static Sites Beat WordPress for Speed, Cost in Local Business Marketing
Local marketers are opting for static site generators over traditional or headless WordPress to cut load times and keep development budgets between $2,000 and $10,000. The shift reflects data that sites slower than three seconds lose 53% of visitors, prompting...
The Zero Touch Future: Enabling Telstra’s Path to a Fully Autonomous, Self-Healing Network
At MWC 2026, Telstra showcased a proof‑of‑concept that automatically detected and healed an unplanned infrastructure outage within minutes, leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift AI and Ansible Automation Platform. The AI agent unified multivendor data, reasoned about the fault, and executed remediation through policy‑as‑code...
Why Test Visibility Breaks Down in Azure DevOps Workflows
Azure DevOps teams often manage test cases in separate tools, leaving test coverage, run results, and linked cases invisible on work items. This split-screen approach forces developers and release managers to piece together manual reports, increasing error risk and slowing...
Anthropic Debuts ‘Repeatable Routines’ in Major Claude Code Automation Update
Anthropic rolled out a major Claude Code update that adds “repeatable routines,” an AI‑driven automation feature, and a redesigned desktop IDE. Routines let developers schedule or trigger tasks—such as API calls, GitHub actions, or maintenance jobs—directly within Claude, running on...
Atlassian Launches Agentic Pipelines in Bitbucket to Automate Dev‑ops Chores
Atlassian announced the rollout of Agentic Pipelines, an AI‑enabled extension to Bitbucket Pipelines that automates repetitive pre‑ and post‑code tasks such as documentation updates. The feature aims to reclaim the 84% of developers' day spent on non‑feature work, promising faster...
DevOps Is Becoming Data Engineering’s New Data Science Role
Is DevOps the new data engineering of data science? As in the old days, when you spent 80% of your time on data engineering instead of data science. https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-state-of-devops-in-data-engineering
As Agentic AI Explodes, Amazon Doubles Down on MCP
Amazon Web Services is deepening its involvement with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open‑source standard that links AI agents to tools and data. MCP, launched by Anthropic in late 2024 and now governed by the Linux Foundation, has become...
How the Cypress Cloud Errors Tab Helps You Triage Faster
Cypress Cloud’s Errors tab has been revamped to speed up test failure triage. The update adds direct Test Replay links on each error, correctly flags flaky test attempts, and expands all error groups by default. These changes let developers see...
Workflow SDK Delivers Next.js‑Level Reliability for Backends
The hardest thing about agents and backends is durability. @workflowsdk fixes this. That LLM you're calling *will* go down. That service *will* rate limit you. That database *will* unexpectedly slow down. You *will* get paged 💀 I've been looking for a unicorn...
Bring Your Own CNI: Inside VMware’s Open Kubernetes Strategy
VMware’s Cloud Foundation 3.6 removes the default‑CNI lock‑in by allowing customers to bring any CNCF‑compatible networking plugin, such as Cilium or Calico Enterprise. The update also unifies governance across virtual machines and containers, giving hybrid‑cloud operators a single policy framework....
Grokstream Expands Scope and Reach of AIOps Platform
Grokstream has upgraded its Grok AIOps platform with a Proactive Problem Identification engine that uses predictive and causal AI to cluster recurring anomalies, pinpoint root causes and recommend automation. The release also introduces GrokGuru, a generative AI assistant that captures...
Boost Productivity with Opus 4.7: Proven Tips
Dogfooding Opus 4.7 the last few weeks, I've been feeling incredibly productive. Sharing a few tips to get more out of 4.7 🧵
New Multi‑Region Endpoint Boosts Availability, Preserves Data Residency
You want @AnthropicAI Claude Opus 4.7 served from a single @googlecloud region? Got it. Oh, you want the global endpoint for max availability? Do that. What's new is the multi-region endpoint with more availability, but respecting data residency. https://t.co/CSUJhvOCMX
OpenSearch Software Foundation Announces New Long-Term Support Versions
The OpenSearch Software Foundation launched a long‑term support (LTS) program, beginning with OpenSearch 2.1.9 and 3.6, to deliver 18‑month stability windows for enterprise deployments. The initiative introduces accredited vendors—BigData Boutique, Eliatra, and Resolve Technology—offering vendor‑neutral, production‑grade support while mandating upstream contributions. Security...
Opus 4.7 Launches on Bedrock; Kiro CLI Integration Pending
Taking a bit of a break today because Opus 4.7 is already available in Amazon Bedrock and hoping it will be in the Kiro CLI today as well (or soon).
Postman Collaborates with Microsoft
Postman announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft that adds OpenAI model support through Microsoft Foundry to its AI‑powered Agent Mode and launches the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for deeper integration across VS Code, GitHub Copilot and other Microsoft tools. The...
Bridge the Visual Gap: How to Integrate Applitools Autonomous with PractiTest
Applitools Autonomous’s AI visual validation can now be tightly coupled with PractiTest through a serverless bridge built on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. The integration eliminates data fragmentation, manual status updates, and latency by automatically syncing visual test results and links...
Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Docker Sandboxes
Docker announced Docker Sandboxes, a microVM‑based solution that isolates each AI coding agent in its own lightweight virtual machine. The architecture couples a dedicated microVM with a private Docker daemon, delivering full Docker‑build, run, and compose capabilities without host‑level privileges....
Only 28% of AI I&O Projects Meet ROI, 20% Fail
"Results of a Gartner study released Tuesday reveal that only 28% of AI use cases in infrastructure and operations (I&O) fully succeed and meet ROI expectations, and a full 20% end up failing outright." https://t.co/zFS0Cy2PEy
InsightFinder Raises $15M to Help Companies Figure Out Where AI Agents Go Wrong
InsightFinder, an AI observability startup founded by NC State professor Helen Gu, secured a $15 million Series B round led by Yu Galaxy, bringing total funding to $35 million. The capital will fund its first sales and marketing hires as it scales the...
ZoomInfo Partners with Pinecone to Power AI Contact Recommendations, Lifting Engagement 50%
ZoomInfo announced a partnership with Pinecone to embed the latter's serverless vector database into its sales intelligence platform. The integration powers real‑time AI contact recommendations, delivering a 50% rise in user engagement and a two‑fold boost in relevance, while handling...
Capacity Efficiency at Meta: How Unified AI Agents Optimize Performance at Hyperscale
Meta’s Capacity Efficiency Program has deployed a unified AI agent platform that automates both detection and remediation of performance regressions and optimization opportunities across its hyperscale infrastructure. By encoding senior engineers’ domain expertise into reusable skills and standardized tool interfaces,...
OpenTelemetry Accepted Elastic's PHP Distro Donation
The OpenTelemetry community has accepted Elastic's donation of the OpenTelemetry PHP Distro, a pre‑packaged observability solution for PHP. The distro bundles native extensions, loaders, and auto‑instrumentation logic into deb, rpm, and apk packages, eliminating the need for custom builds. It...
VMware’s New Tanzu Platform And AI Agents: 10 Security, Data And AI Key Innovations
VMware unveiled Tanzu Platform 10.4 alongside the new Agent Foundations runtime, a pre‑engineered PaaS for AI agents built on VMware Cloud Foundation. The release adds a zero‑trust sandbox, immutable supply‑chain buildpacks, and structural secrets isolation to secure autonomous workloads. Tanzu Platform 10.4...
Quality Engineering Returns: Balance AI Trust and Review
"I started this article by talking about a false choice: either we surrender our judgment to the AI, or get stuck reviewing every line of code it writes." https://t.co/3RYvR9XCVJ < doesn't have to be one or the other. Quality engineering...
How AI Improves Decision-Making Across the Software Delivery Lifecycle - Xray Blog
Xray has integrated AI capabilities powered by Sembi IQ to enhance decision‑making across the software delivery lifecycle. Its AI Test Case Generation creates draft test cases from requirement text, while AI Test Model Generation visualizes behavioral coverage, and AI Test Script...
Python Project Setup 2026: Uv + Ruff + Ty + Polars
In 2026 the recommended Python project stack consolidates environment management, linting, type checking, and data processing into four tools: uv, Ruff, Ty, and Polars. uv acts as a one‑stop installer, virtual‑environment manager, and dependency locker, eliminating the need for pyenv,...
SBOM in Practice: Embedding Compliance Into the Software Delivery Lifecycle
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming a mandatory inventory for modern applications, capturing every library, version, license and known vulnerability. The article explains the two leading formats—CycloneDX and SPDX—and argues that consistency matters more than choice. It outlines a...
Researchers Retrofit JIT Into C Interpreters, Achieving ~2× Speedup
A team of researchers announced that their alpha‑stage tool yk can turn standard C interpreters into JIT‑enabled virtual machines with only about 400 lines of added code and under 50 lines changed. Early benchmarks show roughly a 2× performance gain...
You're Spending Six Figures on AI Models. The Bottleneck Is a 4-Minute CI Pipeline — and Nobody's Fixing the Right...
In this episode, the host explores how the real bottleneck in AI development isn’t the cost of models—often six figures—but a sluggish four‑minute continuous integration (CI) pipeline that slows iteration. They argue that the industry is misallocating resources, focusing on...
GitLab Shares Surge Over Expanded Google Cloud AI Partnership
GitLab announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud, integrating its Duo Agent Platform with Vertex AI models. The news sent the stock up 6% in pre‑market trading and roughly 8.4% by the close, reviving investor confidence in the DevSecOps SaaS...
Deploy Postgres and MySQL Databases with PlanetScale + Workers
Cloudflare announced that users can now create PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases directly from the Cloudflare dashboard and API, with billing routed through their Cloudflare account. The integration leverages Hyperdrive to manage connection pools and query caching, enabling fast, reliable...
Docker for Python & Data Projects: A Beginner’s Guide
The article walks beginners through using Docker for Python‑based data projects, starting with containerizing a simple data‑cleaning script and emphasizing pinned dependencies. It then shows how to serve a machine‑learning model via FastAPI in a lightweight container, followed by building...
AI‑Generated Code Swamps Pipelines, Making QA the New Bottleneck
Tapforce CEO Artur Balabanskyy warns that AI tools can generate 100,000 lines of code in a few hours, turning quality assurance into the primary constraint on software delivery. The shift forces DevOps teams to redesign testing, quality‑gate, and release‑automation processes.
Is Your Internal Platform Ready to Keep Up With AI-Accelerated Development?
AI‑powered coding assistants are pushing developers to ship code faster than traditional Continuous Delivery pipelines can reliably serve. As a result, platform engineers are inundated with ad‑hoc requests, manual handoffs, and inconsistent delivery across teams. The New Stack promotes an upcoming...
The Two-Pass Compiler Is Back – This Time, It’s Fixing AI Code Generation
The article proposes re‑introducing the classic two‑pass compiler architecture to AI‑driven code generation. In the first pass, a large language model translates design specifications into a structured intermediate representation (IR) rather than raw code. The second pass uses a deterministic...
Ease Into Azure Kubernetes Application Network
Microsoft unveiled Azure Kubernetes Application Network (AKN), a preview‑only, fully managed ambient service mesh built on Istio’s ambient mode for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). AKN removes the need for per‑pod sidecars, letting developers add secure networking, Gateway API support, and...
CircleCI Is Now Available as a Codex Plugin
CircleCI has joined OpenAI’s Codex plugin directory, enabling developers to interact with CI pipelines directly from the Codex agent. The plugin lets users monitor builds, debug failures, optimize configuration files, and run CLI commands without leaving their editor. It also...
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[AINews] RIP Pull Requests (2005-2026)
The post argues that pull requests, a cornerstone of Git‑based development since 2005, are on the brink of obsolescence as generative AI reshapes code contribution workflows. Prominent voices like Pete Steinberger and Theo advocate for "Prompt Requests" that avoid merge...
Testing FRRouting Pull Requests with Netlab
The article outlines a straightforward workflow for testing FRRouting pull requests using the netlab automation framework. By cloning the FRR repository, checking out a PR branch, and building the FRR Docker image, users can configure netlab to launch a lab...
Europe Launches First Kill‑switch‑proof Cloud Recovery Stack
Europe builds its first “kill-switch proof” cloud recovery stack https://t.co/QMZVcROJjW >> Congrats. Interesting pan EU collaboration - BUL / D / I and LUX. Good to see. Bow let's look for adoption.