Diagrid Updates Dapr Runtime for the Agentic AI Era
Diagrid at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference has made available an update to the open source Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) that makes it possible to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents in a way that consumes infrastructure resources more efficiently. The Dapr framework is based on Actors that are used to build stateful, […]
Does AI Coding Make Secrets Sprawl Worse in CI/CD Pipelines?
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants help software development teams work faster by generating code, configuring systems and automating repetitive tasks. However, this convenience introduces security risks. AI-generated code may contain hardcoded credentials or insecure authentication methods, potentially exposing sensitive information across development environments. As organizations rely on these tools, understanding how AI-assisted development contributes to […]
Elastic Jenkins: Scaling Workers With Docker Swarm and the Jenkins Swarm Plugin
Manually registering Jenkins build agents becomes increasingly inefficient as CI/CD infrastructure grows. Combining Docker Swarm with the Jenkins Swarm Plugin allows workers to register automatically and makes scaling build capacity as simple as changing replica counts. But automation introduces trade-offs involving shared credentials, workload isolation and scaling down active builds. A practical implementation demonstrates how WebSocket connections, Docker secrets and CI smoke tests can improve the setup while exposing important security limitations.
Autonomy Without Isolation: How Engineering Leaders Make Collaboration Work
Engineering autonomy is essential to high-performing teams, but independence can quietly become isolation. When teams make decisions without surfacing dependencies or seeking expertise, organizations risk duplicated effort, missed requirements and costly rework. Strong engineering leadership means creating the conditions for collaboration through clear boundaries, better incentives, psychological safety and easy access to knowledge. The goal isn’t less autonomy — it’s ownership that doesn’t come at the expense of teamwork.
The Hardest Part of a CI/CD Migration Isn’t the Technology
Migrating from EC2 self-hosted GitHub Actions runners to GitHub-hosted runners requires infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping and team coordination.
AWS Tool Enables Developers to Build Cloud Apps on Local Machines
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today added an emulation capability that makes it simpler for application developers to build applications on a local machine before deploying them in the cloud. Tom “Spot” Callaway, principal open source software strategist for AWS, said the open source AWS Emulator project makes it possible to build and test applications on […]
ControlTheory Adds Traces and Metrics to AI Platform for Analyzing Telemetry Data
ControlTheory today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference added support for metrics and traces to a platform that analyzes telemetry data at the point where it is collected. Company CEO Bob Quillin said version 2.0 of the Dstl8 platform is now able to analyze logs, traces and metrics in a way that […]
How AI SRE Agents Are Changing Observability and Incident Response
Modern systems fail in ways that dashboards were never designed to explain. A single checkout failure can trace back to a Kubernetes node under memory pressure, a slow third-party API, or a log line nobody was watching. Teams now run hundreds of services, thousands of containers and millions of telemetry events per minute. Humans can […]
Cloudsmith Extends Artifact Registry Reach to AI Skills
Cloudsmith this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference unveiled a registry for artificial intelligence (AI) skills that makes it simpler for software engineers to expose a set of reusable instructions, workflows, and resources that teach an AI coding agent how to better perform a specific task. James Matchett, head of security […]
The Rise of AI Site Reliability Engineers – Can Autonomous Agents Handle Production Incidents
AI Site Reliability Engineers are moving from monitoring and diagnostics into autonomous production recovery. They promise faster incident response, fewer outages and less operational toil. But as AI agents begin making critical infrastructure decisions, SRE teams face a new challenge: Ensuring automation doesn’t become a bigger threat than the failures it’s designed to fix.
The Convenience Click That Put 2,539 Secrets on Public GitHub
A new Apiiro investigation reveals how Claude Code’s “don’t ask again” command approvals can inadvertently expose sensitive credentials in GitHub repositories. Researchers identified 2,539 distinct secrets across 1,994 repositories, including database passwords, API keys and SSH credentials. The findings highlight a growing security blind spot as AI coding agents quietly turn developer convenience into persistent security policy.
OpenAI Kept Git and Rebuilt Everything Behind It
OpenAI has rebuilt the Git infrastructure behind its monorepo to handle the explosive growth in activity driven by Codex coding agents. Its new Rust-based backend, Pando, reduces median push latency by approximately 80% while moving nearly a petabyte of Git data daily. The project highlights why DevOps teams must rethink infrastructure designed for human developers as autonomous agents reshape software delivery.
Survey: Need for Speed Tops All Other AI Coding Metrics
A Uplevel survey of 428 engineering and technology leaders reveals a widening gap between AI coding adoption and the ability to measure its business value. While 96% believe AI is improving software development, just 4% have adopted new metrics, and growing code review demands threaten to undermine productivity gains.
Claude Code’s “Don’t Ask Again” Feature Creates Major Security Risk
Anthropic’s Claude Code has exposed thousands of passwords, API keys and other sensitive credentials through a feature created to simplify developers’ daily work, according to research from software security firm Apiiro. The researchers identified 2,539 distinct secrets across 1,994 public GitHub repositories, including credentials that could provide access to cloud infrastructure and enterprise applications. The […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
I Don’t Just Manage Engineers Anymore. I Manage Agents Like a Team
AI coding agents are no longer just productivity tools. They’re becoming active members of engineering teams, opening pull requests, triaging tickets and handling operational tasks. But managing them requires more than better prompting. Engineering leaders must establish clear assignments, standing orders, automated verification and feedback loops that turn autonomous agents into reliable contributors without sacrificing human judgment.
Leah Adds Natural Language Harness to AI Software Factory
Leah has added Harness Builder to its Maestro platform, enabling professional developers and business users to create applications through natural language prompts. By combining AI agents, software factory workflows and governance controls, the company aims to simplify application development while helping organizations maintain security, consistency and oversight.
The Agent Did Exactly What We Let It Do
From Replit’s database deletion to the Nx supply chain attack, AI agent failures expose a dangerous truth: The biggest risk isn’t intelligence, but unchecked authority.
Why We Do What We Do
“Simplicity means that the smallest solution that solves the entire problem is the best solution. It keeps the systems easy to understand and reduces complex component interactions that can cause debugging nightmares.” — The Practice of System and Network Administration In every infrastructure codebase I maintain, there’s a directory called docs/adr. It’s where I keep […]
Blitzy Partners with Microsoft Frontier Company to Bring AI to Azure Workload Migrations
Blitzy, a provider of an artificial intelligence model that establishes the relationship between all the software artifacts in an IT environment, today announced it has allied with the Microsoft Frontier Company to help DevOps teams refactor existing applications in a way that makes it simpler to move them to the Microsoft Azure cloud service. As […]
Meta Acquires Conductor to Support Multi-Agent AI Coding
Meta has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, a deal that extends the social media giant’s developer tools portfolio as it competes with OpenAI and other leading AI vendors. Conductor’s platform enables software developers to manage multiple AI coding agents working on different tasks within a single project. While individual AI coding assistants can generate and […]
OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer to Expand Codex, Challenge GitHub
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire developer tools startup Pierre Computer, a deal that will expand the capabilities of its Codex AI coding platform and position the company as a more direct competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub. The acquisition will bring Pierre’s Code Storage technology into Codex, enabling OpenAI to offer more of the infrastructure needed […]
The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer’s Workday
Meetings, constant notifications and fragmented schedules are undermining software engineering productivity, even as AI coding assistants promise faster development. Research highlights the cost of interruptions, while smarter meeting policies, protected focus time and better management practices can help DevOps teams deliver higher-quality software.