January 2026

January is the perfect time to revisit what’s working, what’s slowing you down, and what technical debt deserves to finally be retired. In this month’s newsletter, we’re kicking off the year with practical insights to help you streamline workflows, improve reliability, and start 2026 with momentum.

Tool Modernization: Replacing Legacy Systems Without Breaking Everything

Modernize DevOps by replacing legacy tools with integrated platforms that improve automation, security, collaboration, and software delivery speed.

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DevOps Industry News

Everybody uses AI tools for software development; few do so securely

5 key AgenticOps practices to start building now

Docker makes hardened images free, open, and transparent for everyone

Partner News and Announcements

Why 2026 will be the year AI grows up

The Bitbucket 2025 Year in Review (and what’s coming soon)

The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)

Let’s talk about GitHub Actions

GitLab 18.7: Advancing AI automation, governance, and developer experience

Taming tool sprawl: How to boost university IT productivity

How to detect and eliminate shadow AI in 5 steps

Stop treating models like magic, start treating them like binaries

What makes Lucid the most intelligent visual collaboration solution—and why does it matter?

What is work acceleration? Defining the next era of work

Requirements Engineering: 9 best practices with examples

Understanding diagrams as code from idea to implementation

2025 Federal Retrospective: The year of resilient innovation

Three new React vulnerabilities surface on the heels of React2Shell

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds quality evaluations and policy controls for deploying trusted AI agents

Looking back at 2025: The power of AND

Five CI tools, one control plane: Finally answer “what’s going on?”

Decoding the change: Why Progress Chef is moving to licensed downloads

Attestation vs. integrity in a zero-trust world

Resilient model training on Red Hat OpenShift AI with Kubeflow Trainer

Top developer productivity metrics to track and how to improve

CI/CD for Cloudflare Pages using CircleCI and Wrangler

Develop and deploy voice AI apps using Docker

What you missed at GitKon 2025

6 ways to enhance developer productivity with—and beyond—AI

Data Federation: What is it, and why enterprise leaders are running towards it

The silent decay of the cloud: Why configuration drift is the silent killer of Jira instances

Is your DevOps data truly resilient? Key takeaways from “Breaking the DevOps data loss chain”

The top 6 risks of AI-generated code in embedded systems

Introducing Tempo Collections

Upcoming Conferences

DevOpsDays

Los Angeles, CA

March 6 • In-person

Other Conferences

CES

January 6-9 • Las Vegas, NV

CodeMash

January 12-16 • Sandusky, OH

GitLab Hackathon

January 22-29 • Virtual

Rocky MountainCyberspace Symposium 2026

February 2 • CO Springs, CO

Atlassian Team on Tour Government

February 11 • Washington, DC

DeveloperWeek

February 18-20 • San Jose, CA

AI Dev World

February 18-20 • San Jose, CA

Build IT Together, Anaheim

May 4-5 • Anaheim, CA

Build IT Together, Dallas

October 27-29 • Dallas, TX

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