DevOps Digest - February 15, 2026

How are you handling AI agent inventory and compliance in your infrastructure?

The EU AI Act requires organizations to classify AI systems by risk level, maintain documentation, and demonstrate oversight. How are you thinking about EU AI Act compliance from an infrastructure perspective.

Reddit | 2026-02-15

[Kubernetes] Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance

Kubernetes uses APIs everywhere -- externally and internally -- so API Governance is critical to maintaining that integrity. JL: API Machinery provides the actual code and tools that people build APIs on.

Kubernetes | 2026-02-15

[Kubernetes] New Conversion from cgroup v1 CPU Shares to v2 CPU Weight

This enhancement addresses critical issues with CPU priority allocation for Kubernetes workloads when running on systems with cgroup v2. While this approach is simple, the linear mapping imposes a few significant problems and impacts both performance and configuration granularity.

Kubernetes | 2026-02-15

[Kubernetes] Experimenting with Gateway API using kind

Overview In this guide, you will: Set up a local Kubernetes cluster using kind (Kubernetes in Docker) Deploy cloud-provider-kind, which provides both LoadBalancer Services and a Gateway API controller Create a Gateway and HTTPRoute to route traffic to a demo application Test your Gateway API conf...

Kubernetes | 2026-02-15

[CNCF] Security Slam Returns for 2026 — Now Open to All Open Source Projects

The CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Security & Compliance is excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Security Slam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, in partnership with Sonatype and OpenSSF.

CNCF | 2026-02-15

[CNCF] Cluster API v1.12: Introducing in-place updates and chained upgrades

In-place Updates Like Kubernetes does for Pods in Deployments, when the Machine spec changes also Cluster API performs rollouts by creating a new Machine and deleting the old one. The new in-place update feature in Cluster API is the next step in this journey.

CNCF | 2026-02-15

[Dropbox Tech] Insights from our executive roundtable on AI and engineering productivity

Improving engineering productivity is crucial to the work we do at Dropbox. The more quickly we can deliver high-quality features to our customers, the more value they can get from our products.

Dropbox Tech | 2026-02-15

Any resources to help a senior backend engineer moving into a lead data platform engineering role? My DevOps knowledge is elementary at best and I don't know everything AWS but I'm the most qualified to do this.

Establishing engineering best practices for the team, platform monitoring, observability, security/governance, failover, design patterns, architecture, and the whole 9 yards are going to be my main responsibility (this absolutely terrifies me).

Reddit | 2026-02-15

Do you feel the Heat of AI in DevOps Roles?

as the title suggests, do you feel AI is after your DevOps job. thts how Amazon also had to let go many DevOps/cloud engineerings.

Reddit | 2026-02-15

Are there any use cases on running AI agents as pods in kubernetes clusters?

I just had a chat with an ex colleague of mine and this topic came up. Are there any companies out there running AI Agents on k8s clusters (successfully)? Interested to learn more on this topic submitted by /u/Nice-Pea-3515

Reddit | 2026-02-15

[Microsoft Azure] Claude Opus 4.6: Anthropic’s powerful model for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows is now available in Microsoft Foundry

Azure’s platform works seamlessly with Anthropic’s SDK, even supporting beta features such as reasoning effort out of the box. —Kevin Kong, Founder & CEO, Everstar New API capabilities co-launching with Opus 4.

Microsoft Azure | 2026-02-15

[Microsoft Azure] PostgreSQL on Azure supercharged for AI

The database reimagined New AI applications require databases that are not only reliable, extensible, and secure, but also AI-ready. For applications that rely on relevance and speed, our DiskANN vector indexing delivers high-performance similarity search.

Microsoft Azure | 2026-02-15

[Microsoft Azure] Maia 200: The AI accelerator built for inference

Scott Guthrie is responsible for hyperscale cloud computing solutions and services including Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, generative AI solutions, data platforms and information and cybersecurity.

Microsoft Azure | 2026-02-15

[Docker] Reduce Vulnerability Noise with VEX: Wiz + Docker Hardened Images

The VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) standard addresses the problem by providing information on whether a specific vulnerability actually impacts an organization’s application stack and infrastructure.

Docker | 2026-02-15

[Sentry] Size Analysis is generally available in Sentry

Automated monitoring in your CI pipelineThe most common way app size grows is incrementally. Let’s look at another scenario: adding a new hero image.

Sentry | 2026-02-15

[Snyk] From Acceleration to Exposure: Why AI Demands Mature AppSec

While AI accelerates software delivery, it also scales security risks by turning minor errors into systemic vulnerabilities. Learn how to transform AI from a potential liability into a secure engine for growth through robust governance and control.

Snyk | 2026-02-15

[Snyk] Why Your “Skill Scanner” Is Just False Security (and Maybe Malware)

Are "Skill Scanners" on ClawHub actually safe? We tested popular community tools like Skill Defender and SkillGuard against real malware. The results were alarming.

Snyk | 2026-02-15

[Spotify Engineering] How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

In Part 2, we will peek under the hood at the tooling that makes the Spotify release process possible. The post How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2) appeared first on Spotify Engineering.