Grafana Labs have launched Grafana 12, bringing significant updates to its visualisation and dashboarding platform. Several new key features are now generally available, including Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and improvements to Drilldown. A central feature is a new collection of observability-as-code tools, designed to help teams automate observability workflows.
"A fully autonomous, AI-powered DevOps platform for managing cloud infrastructure across multiple providers, with AWS and GitHub integration, powered by OpenAI's Agents SDK."
Why developers are spinning up AI behind your back — and how to detect it. The article discusses the rise of 'Shadow AI' - developers integrating LLMs into production without approval, the risks involved, and strategies for organizations to manage it effectively.
>We’ve seen LLMs used to auto-tag infrastructure, classify alerts, generate compliance doc stubs, and spin up internal search tools on top of knowledge bases. We’ve also seen them quietly embedded into CI/CD workflows...
>We’ve seen LLMs used to auto-tag infrastructure, classify alerts, generate compliance doc stubs, and spin up internal search tools on top of knowledge bases. We’ve also seen them quietly embedded into CI/CD workflows...
The article details the author's experience switching from NGINX to Traefik as a reverse proxy for Docker Compose applications, citing scalability and ease of management as key benefits. It explains what a reverse proxy is and highlights Traefik’s automatic configuration and SSL certificate renewal features.
An in-depth look at Choreo, an open-source Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes and GitOps, utilizing 20+ CNCF tools to provide a secure, scalable, and developer-friendly experience. The article discusses the challenges of Kubernetes management, the illusion of 'platformless' solutions, and how Choreo aims to bridge the gap between developer freedom and enterprise requirements.
GitLab 17.9 introduces support for self-hosted AI platforms, allowing organizations to deploy large language models within their infrastructure. This enhances data security, compliance, and performance for industries with strict regulatory requirements.
A developer recounts how Claude Code helped resolve a critical memory usage issue in an API endpoint, reducing memory usage by 99% and providing detailed solutions and evidence.
Learning Lua, the world's simplest programming language, can enhance programming skills, increase exposure to computer science, and improve software design skills.
Dagger is a portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines, developed by the creators of Docker. It enables DevOps engineers to build and run powerful pipelines anywhere by providing a composable, reusable software components system. Powered by Buildkit, Dagger aims to solve the fragmentation problem in DevOps by unifying development and CI environments, facilitating local testing and debugging, and avoiding CI lock-in. Dagger runs on any Docker-compatible runtime, solving dev/CI drift and CI lock-in, and it's in early stages of development with active community participation encouraged.
Despite the great value Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools have brought, DevOps teams are facing frustration due to tool fragmentation, integration hassles, and configuration nightmares. Emerging practices like Infrastructure from Code are being explored as potential solutions.
