DevOps Weekly Digest - Week 4, 2026
⚡ Curated updates from Kubernetes, cloud native tooling, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and security - handpicked for DevOps professionals!
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⚓ Kubernetes
📄 CRI-O completes second OSTIF audit
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of CRI-O. CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) that is OCI-com
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 CNCF Blog
📄 Revolutionizing learning: How Ford's Kubernetes community sparks technological innovation
As traditional learning methods fall short in the fast-paced world of cloud computing and container orchestration, Ford has pivoted to a more agile approach to technology education: an internal Kubern
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Red Hat Blog
📄 Deploy your Spring Boot application to production
In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the application with essentia
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 Ubuntu Blog
📄 Kubernetes ConfigMap Revisions with Pulumi
ConfigMaps in Kubernetes don’t have built-in revision support, which can create challenges when deploying applications with canary strategies. When using Argo Rollouts with AWS Spot instances, ConfigM
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 Pulumi Blog
☁️ Cloud Native
📄 Making (Very) Small LLMs Smarter
Hello, I’m Philippe, and I am a Principal Solutions Architect helping customers with their usage of Docker. I started getting seriously interested in generative AI about two years ago. What interests
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Docker Blog
📄 Day 2 with Cilium: Small configurations that keep large clusters boring
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Cilium Blog
📄 Permission-Aware RAG: End-to-End Testing with the SpiceDB Testcontainer
We use GenAI in every facet of technology now - internal knowledge bases, customer support systems, and code review bots, to name just a few use cases. And in nearly every one of these, someone eventu
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Docker Blog
📄 OpenCode with Docker Model Runner for Private AI Coding
AI-powered coding assistants are becoming a core part of modern development workflows. At the same time, many teams are increasingly concerned about where their code goes, how it’s processed, and who
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Docker Blog
📄 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Top sessions from the CNCF End User TAB
2025 brought significant developments in the cloud native landscape, with a strong focus on AI but new projects and end user reports in many other areas. As always, KubeCon is one of the key places we
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 CNCF Blog
📄 SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) v1.7.0 Release
SUSE Virtualization is a cloud native hyperconverged infrastructure platform solution optimized for running virtual machine and container workloads in the data center, multi-cloud and edge environment
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 SUSE Blog
📄 Safer Docker Hub Pulls via a Sonatype-Protected Proxy
Why a “protected repo”? Modern teams depend on public container images, yet most environments lack a single, auditable control point for what gets pulled and when. This often leads to three operationa
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Docker Blog
📄 Announcing 2025 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners
We are excited to announce the winners of the second OpenTelemetry Community Awards! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable impact to the OpenTelemetry project over the past year,
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 OpenTelemetry Blog
📄 The Design & Implementation of Sprites
We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers and run them on our own hardware all around the world. But last week, we launched S
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Fly.io Blog
📄 The symbiotic revolution: AI and cloud native technologies transforming the digital landscape
This Ambassador Blog was originally published on the writer’s blog and is republished here with permission. In the ever-evolving world of technology, few pairings have sparked as much innovation as th
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 CNCF Blog
📄 A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
We’re excited to announce that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) community has reached an important milestone: more than 300,000 contributors have participated in CNCF hosted projects acros
📅 Jan 12, 2026 • 📰 CNCF Blog
📄 ITFM Maturity: The Next CIO Imperative in the Age of Innovation
IT financial management (ITFM) maturity is a CIO imperative. As hybrid IT, SaaS, and AI increase complexity and cost, organizations without ITFM capabilities can misalign investments and miss opportun
📅 Jan 12, 2026 • 📰 Kubecost Blog
🔄 CI/CD
📄 Meet the new navigation in LaunchDarkly
A cleaner, more focused navigation reduces noise and helps you move faster.
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 LaunchDarkly Blog
📄 Introducing stratified sampling for LaunchDarkly Experimentation
Support fair, reliable experiment outcomes by eliminating hidden sample bias.
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 LaunchDarkly Blog
📄 Data Export: Now available for BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and the EU
Export to your data warehouse in a few clicks.
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 LaunchDarkly Blog
📄 Establishing DevOps for Mainframe Applications
Mainframes don’t have to block DevOps. Learn how extending CI/CD, Git, and security scanning to mainframe applications modernizes delivery without replacing mission-critical systems.
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 DevOps.com
📄 Postmortem for *.bazel.build SSL certificate expiry
On 2025-12-26, at 07:35 UTC, the SSL certificates for many *.bazel.build domains expired. This resulted in widespread build breakages for many Bazel users, as several crucial domains serve essential f
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Bazel Blog
📄 Building an agentic memory system for GitHub Copilot
Copilot’s cross-agent memory system lets agents learn and improve across your development workflow, starting with coding agent, CLI, and code review. The post Building an agentic memory system for Git
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 GitHub Blog
📄 GitLab Delivers on AI Agents Promise to Automate DevOps Workflows
GitLab today made generally available an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform that automates software engineering tasks ranging from planning to application security. Coinciding with the rele
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 DevOps.com
📄 Announcing general availability for GitLab Duo Agent Platform
We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platform. This is an important moment for GitLab, our customers and the industry at large. It is our first step in delivering our
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 GitLab Blog
📄 Introducing GitLab Credits, usage-based pricing for GitLab Duo Agent Platform
We built GitLab Credits because seat-based pricing for agentic AI was not making sense. Seat-based pricing creates AI “haves" and "have-nots” for engineering teams, a fundamental misalignment with the
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 GitLab Blog
📄 GitHub Availability Report: December 2025
In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub Availability Report: December 2025 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 GitHub Blog
📄 AI Catalog: Discover, create, and share agents and flows
Welcome to Part 5 of our eight-part guide, Getting started with GitLab Duo Agent Platform, where you'll master building and deploying AI agents and workflows within your development lifecycle. Follow
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 GitLab Blog
📄 Customizing GitLab Duo Agent Platform: Chat rules, prompts, and workflows
Welcome to Part 8 of our eight-part guide, Getting started with GitLab Duo Agent Platform, where you'll master building and deploying AI agents and workflows within your development lifecycle. Follow
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 GitLab Blog
🏗️ IaC
📄 Introducing the new and improved ESC Editor
Pulumi ESC is Pulumi Cloud’s centralized solution for managing secrets and configuration across every vault and cloud provider you use. It helps teams secure their configuration while adopting modern
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Pulumi Blog
📄 Pulumi IAM Now Available for Self-Hosted Pulumi Cloud
We’re excited to announce that Pulumi Identity and Access Management (IAM) is now available for self-hosted instances of Pulumi Cloud. This foundational security capability brings the same enterprise-
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Pulumi Blog
📄 How Ralph Wiggum Built a Serverless SaaS with Pulumi
I was about to do something that felt either genius or completely reckless: hand over my AWS credentials to an AI and step away from my computer. The technique is called “Ralph Wiggum,” named after th
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Pulumi Blog
📊 Observability
📄 When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale
User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems. The post When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on man
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 GitHub Blog
📄 The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
One of the most persistent and popular feature requests for Java OpenTelemetry over the past couple of years has been the ability to efficiently drop spans for health check endpoints – or any other lo
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 OpenTelemetry Blog
📄 Redis Software 8.0.6: our fastest, most secure release yet
Redis Software 8.0.6 continues our commitment to making Redis the fastest, most reliable, and most secure data platform for enterprises. This release introduces a range of enhancements that improve pe
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Redis Blog
📄 Paginating large datasets in production: Why OFFSET fails and cursors win
The things that separate an MVP from a production-ready app are polish, final touches, and the Pareto ‘last 20%’ of work. Many of the bugs, edge cases, and perf...
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Sentry Blog
📄 Calling New Contributors - Help Us Improve the OpenTelemetry Onboarding Experience
Update as of 2025-12-08 A giant thank you to those of you who have volunteered to participate! We have received more interest than expected, so sign-ups are closed for now. Stay tuned to the OpenTelem
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 OpenTelemetry Blog
📄 Logging in React Native with Sentry
Logs are often the first place dev teams look when they investigate an issue. But logs are often added as an afterthought, and developers struggle with the bala...
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Sentry Blog
📄 Stronger Together: Succeeding with the Zabbix Partner Program
Ready to scale faster and grow smarter in 2026? If so, it might just be time to take a fresh look at the Zabbix Partner Program. As we’ve mentioned before on this blog, the Partner Program is a lot mo
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 Zabbix Blog
📄 Not everything that breaks is an error: a Logs and Next.js story
Stack traces are great, but they only tell you what broke. They rarely tell you why. When an exception fires, you get a snapshot of the moment things went sidew...
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 Sentry Blog
🔐 Security
📄 Threats Making WAVs - Incident Response to a Cryptomining Attack
Guardicore security researchers describe and uncover a full analysis of a cryptomining attack, which hid a cryptominer inside WAV files. The report includes the full attack vectors, from detection, in
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 Linode Blog
📄 Amazon MWAA now available in additional Region
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Thailand). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apach
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 CloudFormation Updates
📄 Empowering federated learning with multicluster management
The modern era of AI training, particularly for large models, faces simultaneous demands for computational scale and strict data privacy. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires centralizing the tr
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Red Hat Blog
📄 Canonical Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Canonical announced it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available. This new independent cloud for Europe enables organizations to run secure, en
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Ubuntu Blog
📄 OpenTelemetry JS Statement on Node.js DOS Mitigation
You may have seen a recent Node.js security advisory and related coverage discussing a potential denial-of-service issue involving async_hooks. OpenTelemetry (and other APM tools) were mentioned becau
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 OpenTelemetry Blog
📄 CoreDNS-1.14. Release
This release primarily addresses security vulnerabilities affecting Go versions prior to Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12 (CVE-2025-61728, CVE-2025-61726, CVE-2025-68121, CVE-2025-61731, CVE-2025-68119). It a
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 CoreDNS Blog
📄 Community-powered security with AI: an open source framework for security research
Announcing GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent, an open source and collaborative framework for security research with AI. The post Community-powered security with AI: an open source framework for secur
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 GitHub Blog
📄 ServiceNow's Virtual Agent Vulnerability Shows Why AI Security Needs Traditional AppSec Foundations
The critical ServiceNow Virtual Agent vulnerability highlights a vital lesson: securing agentic AI requires a return to traditional AppSec foundations. While AI can amplify risks, the root causes ofte
📅 Jan 14, 2026 • 📰 Snyk Blog
📄 Minimal Ubuntu Pro: lean images backed by enterprise-grade security
The security landscape is growing continually in complexity. Whatever industry you work in, your organization has to contend with evolving threats and ever-stricter compliance requirements, whilst at
📅 Jan 12, 2026 • 📰 Ubuntu Blog
💾 Databases
📄 pgmetrics 1.19 released
Hello All, We're happy to announce the release of v1.19 of pgmetrics. Changes since the v1.18 release include: Support for PgBouncer upto v1.25. Support for pgpool upto v4.7. Collect from pg_stat_data
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 PostgreSQL News
📄 credcheck v4.4 has been released
Grenoble, France - January 12, 2026 PostgreSQL credcheck extension The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides few general credential checks, which will be evaluated during the user creation, during t
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 PostgreSQL News
📄 Meet the New dotConnect for PostgreSQL Release
Devart, a recognized vendor of high-performance ADO.NET data providers that enable direct access to major database systems and cloud services, released a new version of dotConnect for PostgreSQL. The
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 PostgreSQL News
📄 MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026: Ship Production AI, Faster
Today at MongoDB.local San Francisco, we announced capabilities that collapse the distance between AI prototype and production. Building AI applications means solving real problems: keeping conversati
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 MongoDB Blog
📄 Introducing BigQuery managed and SQL-native inference for open models
BigQuery provides access to a variety of LLMs for text and embedding generation, including Google's Gemini models, Google-managed models from partners like Anthropic and Mistral. Using Gemini models a
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Google Cloud Blog
📄 PGConf.BE 2026: Call for Papers & Sponsors
Announcing the Belgian PostgreSQL Conference PGConf.be 2026 is the sixth Belgian PostgreSQL conference in Haasrode, Leuven. The conference will take place on May 5th, 2026. Registration for the confer
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 PostgreSQL News
📄 Redis and Adfinis announce re-seller partnership to advance cloud-native, and AI-driven data solutions
Redis and Adfinis have entered into a new reseller partnership to bring customers fast, resilient, and scalable data architectures. The partnership will initially focus on the resale and optimal sizin
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 Redis Blog
📄 Scaling Performance Comparison: ScyllaDB Tablets vs Cassandra vNodes
Benchmarks show ScyllaDB tablet-based scaling 7.2× faster than Cassandra's vNode-based scaling (9× with cleanup), sustaining ~3.5X higher throughput with fewer errors
📅 Jan 13, 2026 • 📰 ScyllaDB Blog
📄 How Bling Migrated a Mission-Critical 25TB MySQL Database to TiDB
Every fast-growing SaaS platform eventually faces the same reality: scaling a single massive database becomes increasingly risky and expensive. At Bling (Part of the LWSA Group), a leading SaaS ERP pl
📅 Jan 12, 2026 • 📰 TiDB Blog
📄 Data Modernization Versus Data Migration
When planning the next step for your organization’s data infrastructure, the first decision is whether to migrate your existing data “as‑is” or modernize your data platforms. This blog explains the di
📅 Jan 12, 2026 • 📰 Yugabyte Blog
🌐 Platforms
📄 Creating better runtime control with LaunchDarkly and AWS
Ship bold AI changes without the guesswork.
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 LaunchDarkly Blog
📄 Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Rachel Bayley
In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Rachel Bayley encourages women to step into the unknown and to be their authentic selves.
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 Linode Blog
📄 The Oracle of Delphi Will Steal Your Credentials
Our deception technology is able to reroute attackers into honeypots, where they believe that they found their real target. The attacks brute forced passwords for RDP credentials to connect to the vic
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 Linode Blog
📄 The Nansh0u Campaign – Hackers Arsenal Grows Stronger
In the beginning of April, three attacks detected in the Guardicore Global Sensor Network (GGSN) caught our attention. All three had source IP addresses originating in South-Africa and hosted by Volum
📅 Jan 19, 2026 • 📰 Linode Blog
📄 What’s new with Azure Repos?
We thought it was a good time to check in and highlight some of the work happening in Azure Repos. In this post, we’ve covered several recent improvements, along with a preview of features that are co
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Azure DevOps Blog
📄 Cloud CISO Perspectives: Practical guidance on building with SAIF
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2026. Today, Tom Curry and Anton Chuvakin, from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, share our new report on using Google’s Secure AI Framework w
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Google Cloud Blog
📄 How Palo Alto Networks built a multi tenant scalable Unified Data Platform
Enterprises across the world are processing significant amounts of data. Palo Alto Networks processes thousands of firewall logs, telemetry signals and threat events every second across its product po
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Google Cloud Blog
📄 AWS Outposts racks support multiple LGW routing domains
AWS Outposts racks now support multiple local gateway (LGW) routing domains, enabling you to create up to 10 isolated routing domains per Outpost, each with independent route tables and BGP sessions t
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 CloudFormation Updates
📄 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in additional AWS Regions
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtu
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 CloudFormation Updates
📄 Astro is joining Cloudflare
The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in th
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Cloudflare Blog
📄 Amazon S3 Storage Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon S3 Storage Lens provides organization-wide visibility into your storage usage and activity. S3 Storage Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, bringing metrics to help you optimize
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 CloudFormation Updates
📄 From Batch to Real-Time: How MoEngage Achieved Millisecond Personalization with ScyllaDB
How a leading customer engagement platform handles 250K writes per second at 1ms p99 latency with 200TB+ data
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 ScyllaDB Blog
📰 Misc
📄 January 2026 Insiders (version 1.109)
Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code January 2026 Release (1.109). Read the full article
📅 Feb 4, 2026 • 📰 VS Code Blog
📄 Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering
Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSAutoscaling vLLM with OpenShift AI model serving: Performance validationNovember 26, 2025 Alberto PerdomoIn my previous
📅 Jan 29, 2026 • 📰 Red Hat Blog
📄 Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux
I’ve been using Linux since 1997. As the ’90s came to a close, there were so many new distributions coming The post Mageia Harkens Back to the Glory Days of Mandrake Linux appeared first on The New St
📅 Jan 18, 2026 • 📰 The New Stack
📄 Repair Advocates Name CES 2026’s Most Anticonsumer Tech
The Repair Association is a U.S. advocacy group fighting for customers’ “Right to Repair.” If you buy something, you should The post Repair Advocates Name CES 2026’s Most Anticonsumer Tech appeared fi
📅 Jan 18, 2026 • 📰 The New Stack
📄 Astro Redesigns Its Development Server
Astro — whose acquisition by Cloudflare was announced on Friday — on Wednesday released its first beta of Astro 6, The post Astro Redesigns Its Development Server appeared first on The New Stack.
📅 Jan 17, 2026 • 📰 The New Stack
📄 The Future of AI in SRE: Preventing Failures, Not Fixing Them
For years, site reliability engineering (SRE) has centered on one mission: keeping systems healthy while everything else — code, configurations The post The Future of AI in SRE: Preventing Failures, N
📅 Jan 17, 2026 • 📰 The New Stack
📄 Meet the 2025 DevOps Dozen Award Winners
When we first launched DevOps.com, the goal was never just to report on tools or trends. It was to elevate the people, ideas, and communities shaping how software is built and delivered. The DevOps Do
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 DevOps.com
📄 Update your Kotlin projects for Android Gradle Plugin 9.0
Android Gradle plugin 9.0 is now available, and it includes two major changes that will affect existing Kotlin projects: This post provides some details about these changes and points you to the resou
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 JetBrains Blog
📄 Friday Five — January 16, 2026
Red Hat Summit registration is now openRegistration is now open for Red Hat Summit—heading to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026—and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of our most impactful yet. Registe
📅 Jan 16, 2026 • 📰 Red Hat Blog
📄 Installing FIPS certified packages on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 and SP7
SUSE has certified and is currently certifying various cryptographic modules for FIPS 140-3 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6. Nearly all of those modules certified on SLES 15 SP6 can also be use
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 SUSE Blog
📄 TransformConf: a New Conference on AI in Software Development
TransformConf, a new event focused on how AI is transforming software development, is coming in 2026! Save the date: September 15–16, London, UK. Early bird tickets are already available! AI is revolu
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 JetBrains Blog
📄 Scala 3.8 Support in the Scala Plugin
Hello everyone, As I write these words, the Scala compiler team is wrapping up the Scala 3.8 release. It’s the last major release before a feature freeze. The next one, 3.9, will be the new Long-Term
📅 Jan 15, 2026 • 📰 JetBrains Blog
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