April 2026

April is here—bringing fresh builds, cleaner pipelines, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting. Whether you're untangling deployments or planting seeds for your next big release, we've got insights to help your DevOps game bloom this spring.

The Rise of AIOps: How AI/ML Are Reshaping DevOps

Explore AIOps and how AI-driven insights, automation, and predictive analytics are transforming DevOps and IT operations while improving reliability.

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DevOps Industry News

The observability bill is coming due – and AI wrote most of it

7 safeguards for observable AI agents

Partner News and Announcements

Developer experience is a blueprint for enterprise productivity

Authenticate Bitbucket Packages with native Pipelines authentication

Rethinking open source mentorship in the AI era

GitHub expands application security coverage with AI‑powered detections

Getting started with GitLab feature flags in Python

Agentic AI now open to even more teams on GitLab

9 New Innovations. One trust layer

Stop policies from breaking your builds

AI readiness assessment: How to evaluate your processes, data, systems, and culture

How test data management supports your scaling organization: Solutions, use cases, & benefits

Beyond the hype: is your organization ready for AI at scale?

Grounded intelligence is key to safe AI software development at scale

Golden pull requests: automating trusted remediation without breaking builds

AWS highest in execution in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

Using managed scaling in Amazon EMR

CloudBees Unify wins gold in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, DevSecOps

From access to intent: Transforming Kubernetes Operations with Chef 360

What’s new with application delivery in Progress Chef Habitat 2.0

AIOps and MLOps made simple: Automating Vertex AI with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Modernize virtual machines on Google Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

The ultimate code review checklist for improved quality and flow

What are test hooks in AI-native development?

Secure agent execution with NanoClaw and Docker sandboxes

GitKraken Desktop 11.10: From top requests to today’s release

ALM data archiving after migration: How to preserve engineering history when decommissioning legacy systems

Protecting Atlassian cloud data: What the Claude code incident teaches us about Jira & Confluence safety

Data backups and AI automation: A match made in heaven

How to validate SBOM accuracy for embedded C/C++ projects

Upcoming Conferences

DevOpsDays

Atlanta, GA

April 21-22 • In-person

Raleigh, NC

April 30-May 1 • In-person

Austin, TX

May 5-6 • In-person

Nashville, TN

May 14-16 • In-person

Kansas City, MO

May 28-29 • In-person

Other Conferences

Enterprise AI Summit

April 9-10 • San Jose, CA

Powershell & DevOps Global Summit

April 13-16 • Bellevue, WA

C5 Cyber & IT Forum Hawaii

April 14-16 • Honolulu, HI

Google Cloud Next '26

April 22-24 • Las Vegas, NV

STAREAST

April 26-May 1 • Orlando, FL

Build IT Together, Anaheim

May 4-5 • Anaheim, CA

IBM Think

May 4-7 • Boston, MA

Atlassian Team '26

May 5-7 • Anaheim, CA

KCD Toronto 2026

May 13 • Toronto, ON, CA

KCD Texas 2026

May 15 • Austin, TX

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