GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own App — and It’s More Than a Coding Assistant
GitHub has launched a standalone Copilot desktop app in technical preview, moving beyond the IDE to introduce a dedicated cockpit for agentic development. The app enables developers to manage parallel, isolated agent sessions directly from GitHub issues, while introducing “Agent Merge”—a feature that autonomously fixes CI failures and handles code reviews to streamline the entire PR lifecycle.
CI/CD Was Built for Deterministic Software — Agents Just Broke the Model
CI/CD was built around a comforting idea: Software should do tomorrow what it did today, assuming the inputs are the same. That assumption sits underneath a lot of modern DevOps. It is why we have build pipelines, test suites, artifact repositories, deployment gates, rollback strategies, infrastructure-as-code and all the other machinery that turned software delivery […]
Microsoft Copilot Studio Brings Computer-Using Agents to the Enterprise
For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor portals, and proprietary line-of-business platforms rarely offer APIs. That means someone, usually a human, ends up clicking through screens, entering data, and completing transactions by hand. […]
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 […]
GitLab Act 2: Still an Open Book
An analysis of GitLab’s “Act 2” transition under CEO Bill Staples, examining whether the company can successfully pivot to an AI-native, agentic software delivery model while dismantling the radically transparent, remote-first culture that originally defined its brand and operational success.
Why DevOps Is Critical for Modern Business Resilience
Today’s business world operates in a state of constant change. What the customer wants to buy changes quickly, new competitors appear overnight, and cyber threats are changing faster than ever. In this world, the concept of “resilience,” the ability to adapt, to overcome, and to continue to create value for the enterprise despite the changes, […]
Widespread Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Is a Matter of Trust
The 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 as bad actors increasingly turn their attention to DevOps environments. That said, these most recent Shai-Hulud incidents attributed to the TeamPCP group also […]
xAI Enters the Coding Agent Race With Grok Build
Elon Musk’s xAI has entered the developer workspace with Grok Build, a local-first coding agent featuring an automated “Arena Mode” that runs and ranks parallel AI outputs to rival Anthropic and OpenAI
Survey Surfaces Multiple Challenges Measuring AI Coding Productivity
A Harness survey reveals that while 89% of organizations see AI boosting developer productivity, a third of the workday is consumed by untracked AI tasks like fixing bugs, code reviews, and managing cognitive load
Observability-Driven Continuous Testing in Cloud-Native DevOps
Observability transforms continuous testing from quality gates into reliability signals. Cloud-native teams ship faster because they know their systems better — traces reveal bottlenecks, synthetics catch regressions and security telemetry prevents breaches.
AI in Production Has a Governance Problem — ISO/IEC 42001 is Starting to Solve It
Moving fast without losing control is the core promise of DevOps. Extending this discipline to AI is the next logical step, supported by existing frameworks.
Migration Observability: Measure Meaning, Not Movement
Traditional operational observability focuses on latency, errors, throughput and saturation. Migration observability needs a different category: Semantic drift.
Capturing Real API Behavior for Regression Testing: Architecture and Implementation
Move beyond scripted predictions. Learn how intelligent regression testing captures real API behavior and detects failures before production
Your CI/CD Pipeline Has Non-Human Identities You Forgot About
A deployment starts failing late on a Friday evening. The initial assumption is that something changed in the application release. Teams start checking container images, Terraform plans and recent commits. Nothing looks wrong. A few hours later, someone discovers the actual issue: a deployment token tied to an old automation workflow expired months ago. The […]
Copado Brings AI Agents to DevOps Platform for Building Custom Salesforce Apps
Copado has added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps platform for building and deploying custom applications for the software-as-a-service (SaaS) application platform from Salesforce. At launch, Copado is making available Agentia AI agents specifically that can be assigned plan, build and testing tasks via an orchestration agent that manages the overall workflow. Each Agentia […]
AWS Security Agent Brings Full Repository Code Scanning to Preview
Security teams have long relied on static analysis tools to catch vulnerabilities before code ships. Those tools are useful, but they have a fundamental limitation: they match code against known patterns. They don’t understand your application. AWS is taking a different approach with its latest addition to AWS Security Agent. The company recently released full […]
The Rise of Composable Architectures to Replace Traditional Platforms
Traditional monolithic platforms have served their purpose. As technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing usher in a new digital age, flexible and modular architectures will take their place. Developers and cloud professionals should familiarize themselves with composable architecture’s principles, benefits and implementation best practices to remain competitive in an evolving technological landscape. Composable Architectures […]
Hacktron Plans to Build AI Platform to Test Code for Vulnerabilities
Hacktron revealed today it is developing a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to continuously test code for vulnerabilities. Fresh off raising $2.9 million in seed capital, Hacktron founder Zayne Zhang said the company’s platform will employ multiple AI models to test every pull request and code change to identify vulnerabilities that are actually exploitable. […]
AWS Extends Scope of AI Engines Embedded in Kiro Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today added additional capabilities to its Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that promise to further reduce the time and effort needed to build software. Kiro now includes a Parallel Task Execution engine that accelerates application development by eliminating the need to complete a set of tasks sequentially, along with a […]
OpenAI’s Daybreak Challenges Anthropic in AI Cybersecurity Race
OpenAI has moved deeper into enterprise cybersecurity with the launch of Daybreak, a platform that identifies software vulnerabilities, validates fixes, and speeds up patching workflows using AI models and its Codex Security system. Daybreak places OpenAI more directly in competition with Anthropic, whose Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos models also offer dual-use AI systems built […]
Red Hat Previews AI Agent Integration with Ansible Automation Platform
Red Hat today revealed it is extending the reach of its Ansible Automation Platform for IT operations to artificial intelligence (AI) agents, in addition to making it simpler to build AI agents using existing application development tools. Announced at the Red Hat Summit conference, version 2.7 of the Ansible Automation Platform adds a technology preview […]
The Five Biggest Mistakes Organizations Make When Implementing SRE
From cargo-culting Google’s playbook to rushing AI-powered observability into production before the fundamentals are in place, here’s where SRE transformations quietly go wrong, and how to course-correct.
Continuous Security in DevSecOps: Moving Beyond One-Time Testing
Waiting for a single annual pentest to secure your application is like locking your front door only once a year and hoping for the best. In an era where 133 new vulnerabilities are reported every single day, relying on periodic snapshots leaves your organization exposed to evolving threats for months at a time. This approach is no longer just […]