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Red Hat announced general availability of Windows License Included for OpenShift Virtualization on ROSA, allowing customers to run Windows virtual machines on AWS bare‑metal instances with licensing bundled into compute costs. The feature bills Windows usage per vCPU at the cluster machine‑pool level, aligning with AWS licensing models and simplifying compliance. It can be enabled through the OpenShift console, Terraform, or the Cluster API Provider for AWS, giving teams flexibility in UI‑driven or IaC workflows. This integration aims to reduce migration friction for enterprises moving legacy Windows workloads to a hybrid cloud platform.
A Virtualization Migration Assessment (VMA) provides a data‑driven blueprint for moving workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, beginning with a Day‑Zero readiness check. The framework evaluates infrastructure complexity, OS compatibility, storage footprint, workload criticality, and internal expectations to create a realistic...
Upsun introduces an "Inherited Compliance" model that shifts most PCI DSS infrastructure responsibilities to its secure‑by‑default cloud platform. Automated patch deployment and built‑in change logs keep the environment continuously compliant without manual effort. By defining the entire stack in a...
AWS Step Functions is now tightly integrated with generative AI services such as Amazon Bedrock, giving developers a low‑code, visual platform to orchestrate complex, multi‑step AI workflows. By externalizing state, retries, and error handling, the service transforms monolithic Lambda implementations...
Meta announced a renewed focus on jemalloc, the high‑performance memory allocator that underpins its infrastructure. The company has unarchived the open‑source repository and outlined a roadmap to cut technical debt, modernize the codebase, and add features such as a stronger...
Companies invest heavily in engineering intelligence dashboards that surface bottlenecks such as slow code reviews, flaky tests, and long CI pipelines. However, most tools only measure problems and leave remediation to manual ticket processes, turning insights into costly wallpaper. Port’s...
Kubernetes 1.35, released December 2025, deprecates cgroups v1 and retires the community‑maintained Ingress‑NGINX project, forcing a shift to the Gateway API for service exposure. The release also drops IPVS in favor of nftables, mandates containerd 2.0, and promotes in‑place vertical pod scaling as...
InsightFinder AI unveiled Autonomous Reliability Insights (ARI), an operational reliability agent powered by its composite AI technology. ARI automates end‑to‑end incident management—detecting anomalies, diagnosing root causes, recommending or executing remediation, and generating predictive alerts. The solution embeds human‑in‑the‑loop approvals and...
The OpenTelemetry Collector’s Filter Processor now supports OTTL context inference starting with collector‑contrib v0.146.0, introducing top‑level `*_conditions` fields that replace nested context blocks. Operators can write a flat list of expressions, and the processor automatically determines the correct telemetry context...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The article outlines how Terraform and Packer can establish Day 2 operations guardrails that keep cloud environments secure, compliant, and cost‑effective after initial provisioning. It identifies common post‑deployment pitfalls such as manual ticketing, policy drift, orphaned resources, and misconfigurations that drive...
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...
Cypress’ cy.prompt command now interprets quoted text as cy.contains calls, generating exact‑match regular expressions instead of generic selectors. The update also extends not.exist assertions to work with text‑based targeting and introduces cy.press for native keyboard actions. Additionally, cy.prompt automatically redacts...
Santander launched Catalyst, a platform‑engineering solution built with AWS, to overhaul its cloud infrastructure. The initiative replaces a 90‑day manual provisioning process with an automated, Kubernetes‑based control plane that leverages Crossplane, ArgoCD, and OPA. By consolidating over 100 pipelines, Catalyst...
Bindplane announced native destinations for the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem, allowing users to route OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs directly to VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaTraces, and VictoriaLogs. The integration provides vendor‑neutral, OpenTelemetry‑native pipelines that eliminate manual exporter configuration and mitigate collector drift. It also...
The Kubernetes Working Group (WG) Serving has been disbanded after successfully establishing the platform as a preferred orchestrator for AI inference workloads. The group’s workstreams gathered requirements from model servers, hardware vendors, and inference providers, leading to the adoption of...
The article contrasts Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with DevOps, highlighting how both bridge the historic gap between development and operations but take distinct approaches. SRE, popularized by Google, centers on engineering‑driven reliability and treats systems as software, while DevOps emphasizes...
Meta’s 2021 global outage highlighted how a coordinated, cross‑functional incident response team can limit downtime and reputational harm. The article uses that case to illustrate the challenges smaller firms face when structuring such teams. It outlines essential roles—Incident Commander, Technical...
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
Pulumi Cloud needed a unified scheduler to orchestrate deployments, Insights scans, and policy evaluations across both its own infrastructure and customer‑managed runners. The team built a database‑backed background activity system that treats each workflow as a typed, persistent activity with...
The tutorial shows how to deploy a Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) AI agent to Google Cloud's Agent Engine using GitLab’s native Google Cloud integration and CI/CD pipelines. It walks through configuring IAM with Workload Identity Federation, creating a .gitlab-ci.yml...
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform now integrates with Cisco Meraki through the Cisco Marketplace, delivering a unified, cloud‑based solution for network automation. The partnership enables rapid provisioning, configuration, and scaling of branch and edge devices while embedding audit, compliance, and security...
The article dissects linkerd-destination, the core component of Linkerd’s control plane that drives service discovery, policy distribution, and service‑profile enforcement. It explains how the service uses Kubernetes watches and EndpointSlices to translate cluster events into real‑time gRPC streams for proxies....
Fastly announced a unified notification drawer that consolidates observability alerts, service advisories and spend warnings into a single bell‑icon panel across the control‑panel UI. The new drawer shows only active alerts with key details and a one‑click link to the...
ProGlove runs a SaaS platform on AWS using an account-per-tenant architecture, currently operating about 6,000 tenant accounts—half active—with over 120,000 service instances and a million Lambda functions. The approach gives each customer isolated compute, storage, and IAM boundaries, simplifying security,...
Cypress 15.11.0 introduces the --pass-with-no-tests CLI flag, allowing test runs that find zero spec files to exit with a zero status code instead of failing the CI pipeline. The failure previously occurred when configuration patterns like specPattern or --spec matched no files, often due to mis‑configured...
Percona released Operator for MongoDB version 1.22.0, adding automatic Persistent Volume Claim resizing, HashiCorp Vault integration for system user credentials, and native service‑mesh compatibility via the appProtocol field. The update also expands backup and restore capabilities, including replica‑set name remapping,...
Rafay has joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a Technology Partner, aligning its AI‑native cloud control plane with VAST Data’s AI Operating System. The collaboration integrates Rafay’s orchestration platform with VAST’s governed storage services, creating a unified, multi‑tenant AI service...
Regulated firms can integrate AI without sacrificing compliance by leveraging automated testing. Continuous validation mitigates risks from non‑deterministic model behavior, frequent updates, and limited explainability. The approach preserves audit‑readiness, traceability, and documented evidence across frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, and...
Docker unveiled Cagent, an open‑source, low‑code framework that lets developers launch AI agents using a single YAML file instead of extensive code. The platform integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Docker Model Runner to support multiple LLM providers and...
CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...
