DevOps and Open Technologies
Beyond Automation: Building Accountability for AI Agents
The conversation around AI agents has evolved remarkably quickly. Not long ago, most organisations were still experimenting with prototypes and controlled use cases, trying to understand where these systems might fit within ...
How to Automate API Testing in CI/CD Pipelines
Automating API tests and plugging them directly into your CI/CD pipeline is no longer a complex undertaking reserved for large engineering teams ...
What Five Localization Pull Requests Revealed About Open Source Governance: A Field Report on Open Source’s i18n Infrastructure Gap
If you maintain an OSS (Open Source Software) project, audit your contribution workflow this week. Could a new contributor add a language without asking basic questions? If not, the next merge is ...
The Future of Salesforce DevOps: Preparing for the AI Era
Damodhar Reddy Mutayalwad | | ai, AI and DevOps, deployments, devops, failures, metadata risks, Predictive Analytics, SalesforceBy establishing a robust DevOps foundation now, organizations can leverage these emerging predictive capabilities to transform reactive pipelines into proactive, self-correcting release architectures ...
OpenTelemetry Achieves CNCF Graduated Project Status
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source OpenTelemetry (OTel) project has officially graduated a little more than seven years after its initial adoption. Announced at the Observability ...
OpenSSF’s CRob: ‘The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out’ on EU CRA Readiness
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act kicks into high gear this September, and companies are still clueless about how they must obey its strictures. MINNEAPOLIS — At Open Source Summit North America, Christopher ...
Widespread Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Is a Matter of Trust
Jeff Burt | | 360 Privacy, AI supply chain attacks, Aikido Security, CI/CD security, credentials, Endor Labs, npm malware, Pathlock, Sectigo, Shai-Hulud worm, TeamPCP, trust in technologyThe latest series of attacks using the notorious Shai-Hulud worm puts into sharp focus the threats facing software developers and their CI/CD pipelines, an issue that has been raised in recent months ...
How Open Source Dependency and Repo Attacks Compromise DevOps Pipelines and How to Stay Safe
Alex Vakulov | | CVE, Dependency Governance, log4j, Malicious Code Injection, open source security, Package Managers, SBoM, secure development, supply chain risk, typosquattingModern applications rely on open source components for up to 90% of their code, creating a vast attack surface dominated by inhemalicious supply chain injections. High-profile incidents like Log4j and the sabotage ...
IBM Bob Takes AI Coding Assistants to the Next Level
IBM Bob goes beyond AI-assisted coding to support the full software development lifecycle — with governance, security, and multi-model orchestration built in ...
Cyber Threats to DevOps Platforms Rising Fast, GitProtect Report Finds
Jeff Burt | | Azure DevOps, CI/CD, code repositories, Cybersecurity, DevOps platform downtime, devops security, extortion, GitHub security, GitProtect.io DevOps Threats report, GPUGate, JIRA, Kaspersky Lab, NPM security, Ransomware, Shai-HuludThe number of incidents targeting DevOps platforms grew 21% in 2025, but the amount of downtime jumped almost 95%, the security firm said ...
Critical Microsoft GitHub Flaw Highlights Dangers to CI/CD Pipelines: Tenable
Jeff Burt | | Aqua Security Trivy, CI/CD cyberthreats, exposed secrets, GitHub Actions, IANS Research, malicious code, microsoft, OWASP Top 10, remote code execution, software development security, software supply chain attacks, software vulnerabilities, TenableA critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and gain access to secrets, ...
Claude Code Routines: Anthropic’s Answer to Unattended Dev Automation
Anthropic's Claude Code Routines let dev teams automate scheduled tasks, GitHub events, and API-triggered workflows from managed cloud infrastructure ...
