Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.

The 4 pillars of AI in 2026: Agents, cost, observability & sovereignty

AI is no longer just about "one-shot" prompts. In this session from our "From Idea to Agent" webinar, Ben Norris (AI Engineer at Civo) breaks down the four key priorities dominating the enterprise space in 2026. From the 130x explosion in token usage to the "vibe-coding" revolution, learn why businesses are turning away from US hyperscalers in favor of democratized, secure, and UK-sovereign AI infrastructure. We explore how autonomous agents are solving multi-step problems and why "Chain of Thought" reasoning is unlocking AI for heavily regulated industries like finance and healthcare.

Let's Encrypt is moving to 45-day certificates before everyone else

The CA/Browser Forum set 47-day certificates as target for 2029. Let’s Encrypt decided to implement it a year earlier. In December 2025, Let’s Encrypt announced their roadmap to cut certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 45 days by February 2028, a full year ahead of the industry mandate. It’s exactly what we’d expect from the CA that made automation mandatory from day one.

How Deployment Pipelines Power Continuous Deployment

Let's be honest: everyone says they want continuous deployment. "Ship all the time! Move fast! Break absolutely nothing!" But the only reason any of that is even remotely possible is because of one unsung hero quietly doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes: Ah, the deployment pipeline - aka your code's obstacle course / gauntlet / walk in the park… depending on how well it's behaving.

Clustered Directors, Pipeline Debugging, and More Integrations

Over the past two months, VirtualMetric DataStream delivered a substantial update cycle focused on resilience, productivity, and platform extensibility. This release strengthens the core architecture, makes pipeline development and troubleshooting significantly easier, and expands integration coverage across schemas, SIEMs, and cloud platforms. Let’s take a closer look.

AI SRE in Practice: Resolving Node Termination Events at Scale

When a node terminates unexpectedly in a Kubernetes cluster, the immediate symptoms are obvious. Workloads restart elsewhere, services experience partial outages, and alerts fire across multiple systems. The harder question is why it happened and how to prevent it from recurring. This scenario walks through a node termination event where the entire node pool was affected, requiring investigation across infrastructure layers to identify root cause and implement lasting remediation.

AI Hosting: The Colocation vs. Cloud Dilemma for Your Next Project

Organisations running AI workloads, like banks training fraud detection models, hospitals testing diagnostic tools, or manufacturers using predictive analytics, all face the same problem: hosting them is costly and resource-intensive. They require dedicated GPUs running non-stop, vast amounts of data moving in and out, and far more power and cooling than a typical IT system.