AI tools like Claude are automating the lookup and boilerplate work of infrastructure engineering, moving engineers up the stack from hand-writing Helm charts and Terraform modules to directing AI-gen…
Rabih Jabr, a developer, reports that AI coding agents like Claude Code can make locally correct decisions with non-local consequences, such as force-pushing to main, because they cannot see the full …
Packt has published 'The Ultimate AI Guide for Linux Engineers' by Ezequiel Lanza and Eduardo Spotti, a 300-page, 12-chapter book aimed at seasoned Linux professionals such as sysadmins and DevOps eng…
Modal, the cloud compute platform, announced a new feature that lets AI agents run inside full KVM virtual machines, providing kernel-level access and real GPU drivers, with hardware ranging from 1 vC…
Mark Burgess shipped CFEngine in 1993, formalized promise theory with Siri Fagernes around 2005, and published *In Search of Certainty* in 2015, but four generations of infrastructure tools—Chef, Pupp…
An engineer involved in developing QuickSDWAN shares insights from building an AI-assisted SD-WAN platform, emphasizing that the real challenge is creating automation engineers can trust rather than t…
A developer handed a CI re-platform from GitHub Actions to Argo Workflows and GitHub to Codeberg to an AI agent, but the rewrite introduced six latent bugs because the runtime environment changed fund…
A developer used AI coding agents, including Codex powered by GPT-5.4, to rewrite SmallTool, a personal production application maintained for six years, and reported that AI saved significant time and…
Telize, a terminal-first YAML runner for chaining shell, Python, file I/O, and LLM steps, has been released as an open-source alpha (version 0.4.0) under Apache 2.0. Unlike agent frameworks such as La…
Network engineers can now teach AI agents their specific workflows using agent skills, a new capability that lets users define repeatable tasks in a SKILL.md file without writing code. The skills, whi…
Prescryb, a new open-source MCP server, enables natural-language-driven vulnerability and compliance remediation by connecting AI assistants to SSH-based host inventory, CVE matching, advisory lookups…
GitHub announced general availability of managed Copilot settings deployment via MDM and file-based configuration for VS Code and CLI, enabling enterprise administrators to enforce governance policies…
The pyca/cryptography package now supports post-quantum cryptography with ML-KEM and ML-DSA, making it pip-installable for the Python ecosystem. This follows a White House order mandating federal migr…
A developer released Ocarina, an open-source tool that allows users to automate and test MCP servers using YAML-based playbooks called Rondos, without requiring an LLM. The tool enables step-by-step e…
An AI developer reports that Claude handles Ansible with high accuracy due to Ansible's declarative, idempotent structure matching LLM reasoning patterns. The developer finds AI-assisted Ansible work …
Rocannon, a new open-source tool, converts any installed Ansible module or role into a typed MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool, enabling AI assistants like Claude Code and Cursor to drive real infrast…
A developer released Hermzner, an open-source tool that provisions a hardened Hermes AI agent on a Hetzner VPS using rootless Podman and Tailscale. The setup includes Terraform and Ansible scripts for…
Developer Redowan Delowar migrated his dotfile management from GNU Stow to Chezmoi after experiencing issues with symlink conflicts across multiple Macs. Chezmoi's approach of storing real files inste…
A DevOps engineer evaluated AI tools for infrastructure work in 2026, ranking them by practical usefulness rather than benchmarks. The shortlist includes Claude for troubleshooting, ChatGPT for code g…
A developer automated the deployment of Gemma 4 26B on Proxmox VE using Terraform and Ansible, enabling hardware acceleration via AMD iGPU passthrough. The setup includes Ollama and Open-WebUI, with a…