The Ultimate Guide to DevOps
A curated Irish edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for DevOps.
What to know about DevOps
DevOps represents a transformative approach in IT that combines software development and operations to deliver applications and services at high velocity. This methodology enables organisations to evolve and improve products faster than traditional software development processes, fostering greater agility, collaboration, and automation.
Exploring our recent stories will provide readers insight into the evolving landscape of DevOps, including cutting-edge automation, security integration (DevSecOps), AI-powered enhancements, container adoption, and challenges faced by enterprises globally. Readers will also discover how trusted companies are integrating DevOps practices to enhance digital transformation efforts, manage cloud and hybrid environments, and tackle cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Whether you are an IT professional seeking to stay current with DevOps trends, a manager aiming to implement DevOps in your organisation, or simply curious about modern software development practices, these stories offer valuable lessons on the cultural, technical, and strategic aspects that define successful DevOps adoption today.
Irish DevOps News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
ManageEngine automates final TLS certificate deployment
Shorter TLS validity periods are set to increase outage risk and admin workload, prompting ManageEngine to automate post-renewal deployment.
Irish IT teams under stress amid staff shortages & AI
Staff shortages, legacy systems and AI demands are leaving most IT decision-makers in Irish companies reporting stress and mental health issues.
Storm Technology names Conor Flanagan as Practise Director
The internal promotion comes as demand grows for ERP projects that join finance reporting, operations and AI-enabled automation on one platform.
AI shifts client expectations as fees face pressure
Fees are under pressure as two-thirds of service providers say clients want more for less and expect AI to cut costs.
Ireland data & AI workers resist job moves, survey finds
Most Irish data and AI professionals are staying put as employers prepare to expand teams and compete for scarce talent.
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Fragmented records and weak governance are making health IT roll-outs slower, costlier and less effective than budgets suggest.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to DevOps
SUSE named Gartner Leader for container management
CloudBolt launches free cloud platform for 100 resources
Broadcom adds AI security tools to VMware Tanzu Platform
Rocket Software adds AI tools for IBM i modernisation
SRE teams take on wider AI oversight in production
Featured News
Expert Columns
The hidden cost of technical debt in the race to modernise Java applications
How AI is changing the rules when it comes to observability
A strategic blueprint for governing AI-enabled software development
As agentic development accelerates, workflow auditability becomes a bottleneck
Why trust is the bottleneck for AI-driven operations
Why health IT projects fail at the data layer
Construction claims are shaped before disputes begin
Atlassian scales AI search with OpenSearch on Kubernetes
How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s
AI won't reduce construction disputes unless documentation improves
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Exclusive: Grafana Lab's Jen Villa on targeting the AI observability gap
Exclusive: How Adobe showcases its innovation engine
UiPath Accelerates AI in Software Development and Testing
Grafana: Turning data chaos into developer efficiency and CFO savings
Recent DevOps News
Auxilion names Eleanor Dempsey Advisory Services Chief
Auxilion has promoted Eleanor Dempsey to lead its advisory services, expanding her remit as it targets growth in Ireland and the UK.
Equinix to invest USD $700 million in Dundalk plant
Equinix will invest up to USD $700 million in a new Dundalk plant with Hanley Energy, promising hundreds of skilled jobs and faster kit supply.
Google details Antigravity SDK for custom agent hubs
Developers can now build their own multi-agent control planes with built-in logging, sandboxing and dashboard monitoring for enterprise workflows.
Rubrik launches Iceberg protection for AWS lakehouses
Enterprises using Apache Iceberg on AWS can now restore full, queryable tables after incidents, reducing manual rebuilds and downtime.
Automotive firms face crisis after 24 hours' outage
Outages could shut down vehicle makers and suppliers in hours, with 87% of organisations saying they cannot cope for more than a day.
Flamingo raises USD $4.5 million for AI IT platform
The fresh capital will help Flamingo turn beta users into paying customers as it takes on the high staffing costs of managed IT services.
NETSCOUT expands data platform to boost enterprise AI
Enterprises could cut AI costs and speed incident resolution as NETSCOUT adds packet-derived evidence to existing observability tools.
Entire launches Agentic Search for code repositories
Software agents could cut search time and token use by querying code history across repositories, commits and session transcripts.
Google automates dual-write database migration to Spanner
Automated code generation cut months from Google's finance migration, helping engineers keep legacy systems and Spanner in lockstep without downtime.
GitHub launches HydraFusion preview for Copilot coding
Developers can now let Copilot switch models mid-task as GitHub trials a system that cut benchmark costs by up to 67 per cent.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra for paid ChatGPT users
The rollout will reach paid ChatGPT tiers and developer channels after early testing showed faster task completion, stronger coding and tighter safeguards.
Cycode launches agentic code scanning & attack chaining
Security teams could see fewer false positives and faster fixes as Cycode's new system blends rule-based checks with AI to trace attack paths.
JFrog launches AI-era security tools for software supply
As AI coding agents speed up development, JFrog is adding controls meant to keep governance, compliance and patching from lagging.
Google Cloud launches Data Agent Kit for Airflow pipelines
Data engineers may cut weeks of workflow setup as the open-source kit lets Airflow pipelines be built and monitored from an IDE.
Google unveils Cloud Run instances for always-on AI agents
Persistent AI agents can now run for up to seven days on Google Cloud Run instances, with fixed endpoints and no autoscaling.
Google Cloud urges fallback planning for AI workloads
Enterprises facing AI demand spikes are being told to secure spare capacity and automate backups to avoid outages and overspending.
Google Cloud launches fault injection testing preview
Fault testing aims to cut outage risk for cloud users as Google Cloud previews a tool that simulates failures before customers are hit.
Google adds pay-as-you-go billing for Gemini Enterprise
Companies can now cap AI spend in Gemini Enterprise as Google adds usage-based billing to curb waste and keep agent projects on budget.
Grafana Labs tops 10,000 customers as AI demand rises
Rising AI deployments are helping drive broader platform use, with most customers now buying several Grafana products and costs falling.
Google Cloud & Anyscale launch Ray sandboxing tool
The experimental setup lets AI teams run untrusted model code in isolated Ray clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine without exposing host containers.