DevOps Daily Newsletter - Week 43, 2026
Run your iOS builds on M4 Macs, inside GitHub Actions
Bitrise Build Hub gives your GitHub Actions jobs faster machines without leaving GitHub. Install the GitHub App, point runs-on at a Build Hub pool, and your workflows, secrets and logs stay where they are.
M4 Macs start at $0.03 a minute for 5 vCPU and 14 GB of RAM, and the build images come with Xcode, the Android SDK, Flutter and React Native.
PostgreSQL 19 now ships on 19 November, and 13 items were cut from its release notes after beta 1, so here is what got pulled and why.
On 10 February 2027 Let's Encrypt moves to 64-day certificates and staging already gives you a preview, so it's worth checking when your ACME client actually kicks off a renewal.
We ran the four DORA metrics over a full year of git history and found that the definition you pick largely decides which performance tier you land in.
Six models and two model routers on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference got the same written on-call policy and had to sort alerts into page, ticket or ignore, and the results show whether the cheap option holds up.
Fewer interviewers ask what a Kubernetes Service is and more describe a broken system and ask what you would do, so here is how to practice for that style of question.
Rust coreutils now power every tool in Ubuntu 26.10, and running 162 shell commands through GNU and uutils side by side shows exactly which ones behave differently.
We read Datadog's pricing page and those of 12 alternatives on the same day, then priced one workload on each to see what you would really pay.
YouTube built Vitess and Slack and GitHub run their largest MySQL workloads on it, so we rebuilt the same sharding pattern on five servers and measured what it costs.
It's a prepaid discount on DigitalOcean Managed Agents, not a server, and pricing our real usage shows where the $50 plan starts to save you money.
Rate yourself across 8 key areas of DevOps and walk away with a shareable scorecard that shows where you're strong and where to focus next.
Each of these six real docker run commands hides a flag that hands an attacker the host, and your job is to click the dangerous one before it does.
A curated roundup of updates from Kubernetes, cloud native tooling, CI/CD, IaC, observability and security, all in one quick read.
A side-by-side look at the two CI/CD platforms covering YAML syntax, runner types and more, so you can pick the right fit for your team.
Get solid on symmetric and asymmetric encryption and the other crypto basics that come up constantly in day-to-day DevOps work.
Put your knowledge of playbooks, roles, inventory management and real automation scenarios to the test.
Quick-fire cards on the file system hierarchy, process management, permissions and common commands to keep your basics sharp.
Happy learning, The DevOps Daily Team