Azure DevOps made it easier to link up with GitHub—no more re-installing the Azure Pipelines GitHub App to kick things off. Teams can spin up aGitHub App–based service connectiondirectly from a dummy pipeline setup. The service connection comes GitHub App–authenticated out of the gate. Super handy .. read more  

AWS wants long-term IAM access keys gone. In their place:temporary creds via IAM roles,IAM Identity Center,CloudShell, andOIDC integrations. The push covers everything—CLI tools, local dev, compute, CI/CD, even old-school on-prem. The message is clear: rotate automatically, grant minimally, and sto.. read more  

Microsoft’s moving the cheese again—this time steering Windows deep into the cloud. The old on-prem management playbook? Getting dusty. At the core:Intune, pushingZero Trustlike it means it. Identity-based access, always-on compliance, real-time config—no more trusting the device just because it’s .. read more  

vClustercuts Kubernetes infra costs by running virtual clusters as pods inside a shared host. No more spinning up full control planes for every tenant. Itslean Syncerfilters API traffic to keep clusters from melting down.Shared controllersand a built-insleep modekeep idle workloads quiet—and cheap... read more  

Kubernetes 2.0 is kicking YAML to the curb.After years of living and breathing.yamlfiles, the project is eyeing a hard break. Maintainers haven’t said it outright, but the message is clear: YAML isn’t cutting it anymore. System shift:This could signal a real usability reboot—maybe even a less painf.. read more  

Talos Linux—an OS stripped down to the essentials and locked tighter than a production firewall—now boots cleanly as a VM onProxmox, playing nice with fullKVM/QEMUsupport. No shell, read-only filesystem, all wired forKubernetesviatalosctl. System shift:Devs are tossing old-school VM stacks for bare.. read more  

TheKubernetes Gateway APIhit v1.0 and is officially stable. It's a clean break from the old Ingress model, bringing modular, role-aware, multi-protocol control. Core players:Gateway,GatewayClass, andHTTPRoute. On the flip side,Kong Gatewayis losing ground. The newer kids—Envoy Gatewayandkgateway—ar.. read more  

Depot just droppedNVMe-backed cache mounts—persistent, high-speed, and wired for true incremental Docker builds. Yes, even inephemeral CI. It hooks intonative BuildKit cache mounts, supporting bothsharedandexclusiveaccess. No more fragile registry caches. No more arcane CI cache duct tape... read more  

Docker Scout now scans Azure Linux 3.0 containers for CVEs in real time—right in your pipeline. It spots vulns by layer, shows you how to fix them, and plays nice withDocker,Azure DevOps, andGitHub Actions. Security scanning isn't extra credit anymore. It's shipping with the build... read more  

Spin up a production-gradeAKScluster withTerraform, but skip the hand-wavy theory. This new hands-on project gets into the weeds—RBAC, autoscaling, network policies, IP lockdowns, and yes,Azure Monitorwired up for observability out of the gate. Costs? Controlled. Infra? All code. It’s IaC for teams.. read more