Kubernetes v1.36 brings safer upgrades with the Mixed Version Proxy, while GKE at Next '26 positions Kubernetes as the operating system for AI with hypercluster, Agent Sandbox, and llm-d joining the CNCF. Plus: AWS Bitnami removal warnings and Red Hat's OpenShift Virtualization consolidation play.
The DevOps landscape in 2026 is transforming through agentic AI, platform engineering maturity, GitOps standardization, OpenTelemetry adoption, and supply chain security requirements. From AWS DevOps Agent to self-architecting systems, discover how these converging trends are reshaping software delivery.
AWS AFT now supports native OIDC integration with HCP Terraform, eliminating manual IAM configuration. Here's how to implement secure, short-lived credentials for your infrastructure automation.
Financial services organizations can now run PCI DSS workloads on shared-tenancy Amazon EKS without dedicated hosts - here's how to architect compliant Kubernetes infrastructure while balancing cost, security, and scalability.
AWS temporary permission delegation for HCP Terraform reaches general availability, enabling just-in-time AWS access with dynamic provider credentials for streamlined infrastructure automation.
AWS introduces session policies for EKS Pod Identity, enabling dynamic IAM permission scoping without creating additional roles—solving multi-tenant permission challenges.
AWS EKS introduces session policies for Pod Identity, enabling fine-grained IAM permission scoping without creating additional IAM roles.
AWS says Copilot CLI will reach end of support June 12, 2026. If you’ve standardized on Copilot’s manifests and workflows, now is the moment to choose a migration path that preserves your deployment ergonomics while improving infra visibility.
AWS demonstrates migrating an EC2-hosted app to ECS Express Mode using Kiro CLI plus AWS/ECS MCP servers. Beyond the tutorial, this is a blueprint for ‘operator copilots’ that can discover, plan, validate, and execute infrastructure changes with guardrails.
EKS Capabilities package Argo CD, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), and Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) as managed, Kubernetes-native building blocks. Here’s what changes when platform teams can compose AWS resources and Kubernetes resources behind custom APIs — without running the controllers themselves.
AWS shows how to wire Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift signals into Karpenter so clusters stop provisioning into a degraded AZ. Here’s why it matters, how it works, and what platform teams should standardize.
