DevOpsCon

You built the platform. Now something else is using it. And it does not pause. It does not ask. It does not notice when something looks wrong. There is a 1968 film that made this exact point. HAL 9000 was not evil. He was efficient. He had a mission, the access to pursue it, and no built-in sense of when to stop. The danger was never his intelligence. It was confidence without limits inside a system that never defined them. John Willis, one of the original voices behind DevOps, used that exact reference in his keynote at DevOpsCon Berlin. Not as a sci-fi metaphor. As a warning for how we are building right now. His framing: unlimited knowledge at machine speed, and every micro-delegation creates a blast radius. Your agents are not HAL. But the architecture problem is the same. Permissions scoped for humans. Ownership that lives in someone's head. No explicit boundary between what the agent can touch and what it should never reach. That is what changes with AI Platform Engineering. Identity, permissions, governance, and accountability become the foundation, not an afterthought. The platform stops being delivery infrastructure for developers and becomes the structure that decides how autonomous action is allowed to happen at all. Read the Full Article : devopscon.io/blog/governing… Learn More about AI Platform Engineering Day : devopscon.io/ai-platform-en… #DevOpsCon #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #CloudNative #SRE

Did you know, just because your object storage is stable doesn't mean your strategy is? In this article, Alexander Gottschlich explores what this shift means for platform and DevOps teams, the risks to consider, and the strategic options for moving forward. 💡 Key insights: 🔹 What MinIO's maintenance mode really means for operators 🔹 Why the biggest challenge is predictability—not functionality 🔹 Key questions every organization should answer before making a decision 🔹 The trade-offs between staying with MinIO, self-maintaining it, or migrating to another S3-compatible solution 🔹 How to balance operational stability, security, and long-term architectural control 👉 Read the full article here: devm.io/devops/minio-m… #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #MinIO #ObjectStorage

Building an AI demo is easy. Building AI that delivers business value is the real challenge. 💰💹 💊That's exactly what this Fullstack Live Event is all about. 💡 What you'll learn: 🔹 Turn unstructured enterprise data into production-ready AI workflows 🔹 Evaluate agentic LLM applications beyond intuition and "vibe checks" 🔹 Deploy LLMs, vision, and speech models directly in the browser 🔹 Build secure, scalable AI systems with measurable business impact 🎙️ Featuring: • Apurva Misra – AI as a Cog in the Machine: Transforming Unstructured Data into Competitive Advantage • Rushabh Mehta – Evaluating Agentic LLM Apps: Beyond Vibes • Maximiliano Firtman – Run LLMs, Image, and Speech Models in the Browser—No Cloud Required ⏰Recording available until September 03, 2026. Dont' miss it! : devm.io/live-events/fr… #MLOps #LLM #AgenticAI #MachineLearning #AIEngineering

🌞 Good morning, Sunday vibes! We brought you an insightful sunday morning podcast! In this episode, Michael Dowden, Uwe Friedrichsen, and Sebastian Meyen explore the human core of engineering in the age of AI. They dive into: ☕Why AI acts like an accelerant in software teams 🥐The shift from efficiency → true effectiveness 🎧 Why engineering fundamentals (testing, automation, clarity) matter more than ever 🎶 How humans stay essential in an increasingly AI-driven world 👉 Grab your sunday coffee, and Tune in now! devm.io/reader/player/… #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #EngineeringLeadership #Podcast #Agile #TechLeadership #GenAI

AI surely gives us more options—but fewer conversations. 🤝🚫 👥When AI removes the need to collaborate, teams risk losing something even more valuable: shared understanding. In this article, Anna Iarinovskaia explores how AI is reshaping the relationship between designers and developers—and why the fastest teams aren't the ones that rely on AI the most, but the ones that continue to make decisions together. 💡 Key insights: 🔹 Why AI is reducing collaboration between design and development 🔹 The hidden cost of accepting polished AI output without questioning it 🔹 Why ownership matters more than ever in AI-assisted workflows 🔹 Why better tools should lead to better conversations, not fewer of them 👉 Level up your saturday AI knowledge here: devm.io/ux/ai-designer… #AI #ProductDesign #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperExperience #Collaboration

Digital sovereignty isn't just a policy discussion anymore—it's an engineering challenge. 🌍 At DevOpsCon New York, we're bringing together insightful sessions exploring how organizations can build resilient and sovereign technology platforms—without sacrificing speed or innovation. 👀 Here's a sneak peek of what's inside: 📂 AI - Is it a threat, tool, or transformation partner? 🔊 Speaker: Garima Bajpai from Canada DevOps Community of Practice 📂 Compliance Driven CI CD Pipelines for Secure Cloud Native Software Delivery CI/CD: Automation & Delivery 🔊 Speaker: Prudhvi Mudunuri from Guide House Digital LLC 📂 When AI Loses Context: A Zero Trust Blueprint for AI Agents in Kubernetes 🔊 Speaker: Mithil Patel from Equinix 📂 Advanced Terraform: Patterns, Pipelines, and Platform Thinking 🔊 Speaker: Rob Richardson from Richardson & Sons, LLC 📍 DevOpsCon New York 🗓 September 28 – October 2, 2026 👉 devopscon.io/new-york/progr… #DevOpsCon #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #SoftwareArchitecture #DigitalSovereignty

🚨New York! The Early Bird won't wait. Will you? Only 2 weeks left to save up to $600 for your DevOpsCon New York ticket! Join hundreds of software professionals for cutting-edge sessions, hands-on workshops, and expert-led bootcamps before prices go up. 💰 Save up to $600 🎫 Access the Parallel Conference 👥 Bring your team (3+) and get an extra 10% off 📅 Offer ends July 23. 👉 Secure your ticket here: devopscon.io/new-york/ticke… #DevOps #DevOpsCon #CloudNative #Kubernetes #SoftwareEngineering

🌱 Don't wait for a shared environment. Every feature branch gets its own URL. The result?➡️ Faster collaboration, quicker feedback, and smoother validation. In this article, Marc Herren demonstrates how to automatically deploy every Git feature branch into its own live environment—making it instantly accessible through a CI/CD pipeline. 💡 Key insights: 🔹 How to automatically deploy feature/* branches to dedicated preview environments 🔹 Why separating CI and CD pipelines improves efficiency and access control 🔹 How GitOps, GitFlow, and Argo CD work together to streamline deployments 🔹 Managing secrets securely with Bitnami Sealed Secrets 👉 Read the full article here: devopscon.io/blog/automated… #GitOps #GitFlow #CICD #ArgoCD #Kubernetes #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #SoftwareEngineering

[For German speakers only] Viele Kubernetes-Probleme entstehen lange vor dem eigentlichen Incident. Fehlende Transparenz bedeutet: ❌ spätes Reagieren ❌ riskante Deployments ❌ aufwendiges Troubleshooting Das zu lösen erfordert solide Kubernetes-Skills – von Grundlagen bis Advanced Operations. 👉 Jetzt Ticket sichern: devopscon.io/camps/

🌍Tell me, What does it mean to stay in control in a world of autonomous systems and shifting infrastructure? Join Christian Salzmann-Jäckel, Pawel Piwosz & Romina Druta in this Fullstack Live Event exploring exactly that point: how organizations can maintain *agency* in a rapidly changing technology landscape. You’ll learn: 🔹 How to build cloud-agnostic, GitOps-driven infrastructure with Kubernetes & OpenStack 🔹 What data sovereignty really means in modern architectures 🔹 How to govern AI agents for secure, compliant systems 🔹 How to reduce attack surfaces through automation and control 🔴🎥Watch the live event now: devm.io/live-events/ag… #CloudNative #Kubernetes #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #DataSovereignty #AI #DevSecOps #Infrastructure #GitOps

🚨 You think you’re multitasking by context switching. In reality, you’re paying a hidden tax on delivery cost. Agile teams don’t fail because of lack of skills—they fail because focus keeps getting interrupted. In this article, Nishi Grover Garg explores how context switching raises the delivery cost in modern Agile teams—and the solution to it. 💊 💡 Key insights: 🔹 Why context switching is the biggest invisible cost in Agile delivery 🔹 How constant interruptions break focus, quality, and sprint outcomes 🔹 The difference between real agility vs reactive delivery 🔹 Why “being busy” often hides broken flow 🔹 Practical ways to reduce switching and protect team focus 👉 Read the full article here: devm.io/reader/reading… #Agile #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #DevOps #EngineeringLeadership #Lean #TeamPerformance #DeliveryManagement

🌞YOUR SATURDAY PODCAST DROP🎙️ 🤔What if platform engineering isn’t really about building platforms, but about creating a key for your teams to succeed?  Join Michael Dowden and Mark Boyd as they explore why platform engineering is becoming the governance fabric of modern digital businesses—helping teams move faster by reducing friction, improving consistency, and building trust at scale. 🎧👉Tune in and upgrade your platform engineering skills over the weekend!  devm.io/reader/player/…  #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #Podcast #TechLeadership #DeveloperExperience

🌳 When every team grows its own CI/CD pipeline, you end up with branches everywhere—but no shared roots to keep the system stable. ❌ In this article, Ana Escobar Llamazares explains how Platform Engineering changes that by turning CI/CD into a shared, platform-owned capability that continuously improves. 💡 Key insights: 🔹 Why CI/CD becomes more reliable when centrally owned 🔹 How the “golden path” standardizes delivery without blocking teams 🔹 What a real reusable pipeline looks like in GitHub Actions 🔗 Read the full article here: devm.io/continuous-del… #PlatformEngineering #CICD #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery #DevSecOps #SoftwareEngineering #GitHubActions #CloudNative

Digital sovereignty isn’t about Cloud Access—it’s about Cloud Control💪🛡️ In this new article, Jörg Gottschlich  explores how Platform Engineering offers a way out of this dependency trap by introducing a structured internal platform layer between applications and infrastructure. 💡 Key takeaways: 🔹 Why cloud-first architectures can quietly reduce long-term flexibility 🔹 How platform engineering restores control without slowing teams down 🔹 What “digital sovereignty” really means in modern system design 🔹 How Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platforms work across Azure and STACKIT 🔹 Why decoupling infrastructure from applications enables real choice again 🔗 Read the full article here: devopscon.io/blog/digital-s… #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #DigitalSovereignty #Kubernetes #DevOps #IDP #SoftwareArchitecture #DevSecOps

🧹Struggling with observability in Kubernetes? Fluent Bit got you covered. Observability doesn’t have to feel like black magic—this new deep dive by Patrick Stephens breaks down how Fluent Bit, OTEL, and Kubernetes actually work together (and how to debug them when things go wrong). In this hands-on guide, you’ll learn: 🔹 How Fluent Bit integrates with OpenTelemetry (yes, it works!) 🔹 What really happens under the hood in Kubernetes logging 🔹 Common pitfalls that break observability setups 🔹 Practical debugging tips from a core Fluent Bit maintainer If you’ve ever wondered “why is my logging pipeline not behaving?”—this is the walkthrough you need. 👉 Get access to the exclusive article now! devm.io/reader/reading… #Observability #Kubernetes #FluentBit #OpenTelemetry #CloudNative #DevOps #SRE #FullStackDevelopment

🌞 Good morning, Sunday vibes! What is AI really doing to software engineering—not as hype, but as a force that amplifies everything we already do well… and everything we don’t? In this podcast episode, Michael Dowden, Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried, and Sebastian Meyen explore the human core of engineering in the age of AI. They dive into: ☕Why AI acts like an accelerant in software teams 🥐The shift from efficiency → true effectiveness 🎧  Why engineering fundamentals (testing, automation, clarity) matter more than ever 🎶 How humans stay essential in an increasingly AI-driven world 💡 The big idea: AI doesn’t replace engineering thinking—it exposes it. 👉 Grab your sunday coffee, and Tune in now! devm.io/reader/player/… #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #EngineeringLeadership #Podcast #Agile #TechLeadership #GenAI

⚠️🤖 Your AI agents are hiding something from you—they’re loops with tools, costs, and risks. In this deep-dive by Paul Dubs (CTO, Xpress AI), we strip away the hype and build an AI agent from scratch in Python to understand what’s really happening under the hood. Instead of magic, you’ll see: 🔹 A simple interaction loop powering “agents” 🔹 How tool usage actually works in practice 🔹 Why costs can spiral out of control fast 🔹 Where real security vulnerabilities appear 👉 Read the full article from Paul to build safer, smarter AI Agents: devm.io/machine-learni… #AI #AIAgents #MachineLearning #LLM #GenAI #SoftwareEngineering #MLOps #PromptEngineering #DevOps #ArtificialIntelligence

At DevOpsCon New York, we’re bringing together four powerful sessions that challenge how teams build, ship, and scale software in real-world environments. 👀Here’s a sneak-peak of what’s coming: 📂 Governed by Design: Cutting Release Time by 55% with Embedded CI/CD Controls 🔊 Speaker: Vaibhav Sharma (Ford Credit) 📂 The End of Documentation: Building an MCP-Based Living Developer Platform 🔊 Speakers: Hrushikesh Pokala & Sumanth Mothukunuri 📂 Advanced Terraform: Patterns, Pipelines & Platform Thinking 🔊 Speaker: Rob Richardson 📂 Compliance-Driven CI/CD for Secure Cloud-Native Delivery 🔊 Speaker: Prudhvi Mudunuri --- 📍 DevOpsCon New York 🗓 Dates: Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2026 Check out the full program🎉 ➡devopscon.io/new-york/progr… #DevOps #DevOpsCon #CI/CD #Terraform #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #SoftwareArchitecture #DevSecOps #EngineeringLeadership #MCP

🚧 Is your DevOps team a ticket queue? In her DevOpsCon London keynote, Anna Lavrova reveals one of the BIGGEST BLOCKERS in modern engineering organizations: 🚨treating DevOps and architecture as gatekeepers instead of enablers. 🎥 In this session, Anna explores: 🔹Why many organizations are still operating in an "industrial factory mode" 🔹 The hidden problem with temporary enabling teams 🔹Why architecture should be built around *enabling constraints* 🔹How adaptive team topologies unlock autonomy, faster delivery, and real business value Watch the keynote and discover how to move from approval bottlenecks to adaptive, high-performing teams. 👉 Read the full blog and watch the recording. devopscon.io/blog/from-gate… #DevOps #SoftwareArchitecture #TeamTopologies #Agile #DevSecOps #EngineeringLeadership #PlatformEngineering #DigitalTransformation #TechLeadership #DevOpsCon

[For German speakers only] Warum Kubernetes ein deklaratives Modell nutzt – und warum das für DevOps zählt „Warum beschreibt man in Kubernetes den Zielzustand statt einzelne Schritte?“ Weil Systeme damit stabiler, skalierbarer und automatisierbarer werden. ✅ deklarativ statt imperativ ✅ kontinuierliche Zustandsabgleichung ✅ ideal für Automation & GitOps 👉 Mehr im Blog: devopscon.io/blog/kubernete…