Browse DevOps News (175)

Matt Soucoup announces a major update to the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations project: a new website, a Learning Hub, and a plugin system to make Copilot agents, skills, instructions, and automation easier to find, install, and contribute to.

Kedasha Kerr walks beginners through GitHub Actions by explaining core workflow concepts (events, runners, jobs, steps) and building a simple CI-style automation that labels newly opened issues using a YAML workflow and the GitHub CLI.

Allison announces a GitHub Enterprise Cloud change: the cost center integration is being removed from the enterprise People page and the People/Licensing CSV export, with management moving to the Billing Cost centers page.

Gloridel Morales details the March patch release for Azure DevOps Server, providing guidance on installation, verification, and who needs the update for secure DevOps operations.

Diego Casati and Ray Kao explore the challenges of scaling platform engineering processes, focusing on specialization, tool complexity, and the growing role of AI-powered collaboration in the Azure ecosystem.

PuiChee (PC) Chan explains how to use new Azure Developer CLI (azd) commands to diagnose and debug hosted AI agent failures, providing developers with direct access to container status and live logs from the terminal.

Allison announces a new option in GitHub that lets repository administrators skip manual approval for GitHub Actions workflows triggered by Copilot coding agent, balancing workflow speed and security.

Allison from GitHub announces a temporary pause in enforcing the minimum version requirement for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners, urging users to continue upgrading for future compliance.

Pierce Boggan details how the VS Code team integrates AI and GitHub Copilot to streamline their development pipeline, covering automated code review, release cadence acceleration, and quality management strategies.

Mika Dumont explores how the modernize-dotnet agent empowers developers to modernize .NET projects from Visual Studio, VS Code, the Copilot CLI, or even directly on GitHub, generating structured upgrade plans and supporting custom workflows.

Allison shares the release of GitHub REST API version 2026-03-10, highlighting breaking changes, upgrade guidance, and future support timelines for integrators.

Carie Fisher explains how GitHub leverages GitHub Copilot, AI automation, and developer-centric workflows to turn accessibility feedback into actionable, continuously resolved issues. The piece details technical approaches, architecture, and human-in-the-loop best practices for delivering more inclusive code.

Allison reports on a significant update to GitHub Actions OIDC token functionality: repository custom properties can now be added as claims, supporting stronger and more flexible policy controls across major cloud providers.

Microsoft Fabric Blog details how VS Code users can now deploy SQL database schema changes directly to Fabric, streamlining data engineering workflows. Author Microsoft Fabric Blog explains new publish dialog and item templates, improving productivity for database and application development teams.

Allison reports on GitHub's public preview of issue fields, which introduce structured and customizable metadata for issue tracking, offering enhanced project management for development teams.

Jakub Oleksy presents a thorough incident report detailing GitHub's six major outages in February 2026, with insights on DevOps impact, Copilot disruptions, and ongoing platform reliability improvements.

Laura Jiang details a temporary rollback in Azure DevOps allowing build identities to access Advanced Security APIs again. The post outlines the required actions for teams before the restrictions return in April 2026.

Vlad Fedorov discusses the recent series of GitHub outages, pinpointing their technical causes and highlighting steps—such as a major migration to Azure—that GitHub's engineering team is taking to improve reliability and incident response for developers.

Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team expose the Contagious Interview campaign, detailing how fake technical interviews target developers with malware. Their research highlights attack methods, malware payloads, and practical protection strategies.

Allison introduces a GitHub CLI update that enables developers to request Copilot code reviews directly from the terminal, improving code workflow and reviewer selection performance.