AI for DevOps Podcast
AI arrived in the toolchain faster than anyone wrote runbooks for it, and now it's reviewing pull requests, triaging incidents, and quietly writing the YAML you'll be debugging at 3am. These episodes cover AI where it actually touches operations: copilots and coding agents wired into CI/CD, LLM-assisted root cause analysis, and the AIOps pitch that ranges from genuinely useful to expensively wrong.
We stay skeptical without being dismissive. Expect candid talk about agentic workflows that ship real code, the new attack surface that prompt injection opens up, and where a model belongs in the loop versus where a human still has to sign off. If you're working out how to let AI speed up delivery without handing it the keys to production, this is the corner of Ship It Weekly for you.
Episodes on AI for DevOps
CISA’s GitHub Leak, AI Root Cause Analysis, Copilot Agents, Claude Code in CI/CD, and Kubernetes Seccomp RiskEpisode: CISA’s GitHub Leak, AI Root Cause Analysis, Copilot Agents, Claude Code in CI/CD, and Kubernetes Seccomp RiskThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about secrets, agents, risky defaults, and follow-up work that never gets done. Brian covers the CISA contractor GitHub leak involving AWS…
AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production RiskEpisode: AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production RiskThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. Brian covers GitHub making Copilot cloud agent tasks available…
Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy FailEpisode: Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy FailThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and…
Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme…
GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production NowEpisode: GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production NowThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about the developer toolchain becoming part of production. Brian covers GitHub’s critical git push RCE, AI-assisted reverse engineering, prompt injection against…
Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human IdentitiesEpisode: Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human IdentitiesThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about platforms getting sharper about defaults, ownership, and the old paths they are no longer willing to quietly carry forever. Brian…
AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry ConfigEpisode: AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry ConfigThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about networking, ingress, and private access moving further up into the platform layer. Brian covers AWS Interconnect going generally available, Cloudflare…
Special: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: AI Exploit Discovery, Zero-Day Risk, Business Fallout, and What It Means for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform SecurityEpisode: Special: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: AI Exploit Discovery, Zero-Day Risk, Business Fallout, and What It Means for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform SecurityIn this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, and why this story matters beyond normal AI launch hype.Anthropic is treating Mythos…
Ship It Conversations: David Tuite on Backstage, Internal Developer Portals, and the Shift to AI AgentsEpisode: Ship It Conversations: David Tuite on Backstage, Internal Developer Portals, and the Shift to AI AgentsThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with David Chute, founder and…
Hackerbot-Claw Grows, Xygeni Tag Poisoning, GitHub Search HA, Windows SID Failures, and AI Skills Supply ChainEpisode: Hackerbot-Claw Grows, Xygeni Tag Poisoning, GitHub Search HA, Windows SID Failures, and AI Skills Supply ChainThis episode of Ship It Weekly is about the places where convenience quietly turns into trust.Brian revisits the Trivy story by zooming out to the bigger hackerbot-claw GitHub…
Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure TestingEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure TestingThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Ang Chen from the…
McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on KubernetesEpisode: McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on KubernetesThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at what happens when new interfaces create old responsibilities.McKinsey patched a vulnerability in its internal AI tool Lilli, Kafka contributors…
AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code SecurityEpisode: AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code SecurityThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux…
Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)Episode: Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux…
Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI EraEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI EraThis is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Mike Lady (Senior DevOps…
GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope CreepEpisode: GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope CreepThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits five stories where the “defaults” are shifting under ops teams.GitHub is bringing Agentic Workflows into Actions, Gentoo is migrating off…
Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)Episode: Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)In this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down the OpenClaw situation and why it’s bigger than “another CVE.”OpenClaw is a preview of what platform teams are about…
Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPEpisode: Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCPThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four “control plane + trust boundary” stories where the glue layer becomes the incident.Azure had a platform incident that impacted…
Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)Episode: Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Austin Reed from horizon.dev…
curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingEpisode: curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer SharingThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at three different versions of the same problem: systems are getting faster, but human attention is still the bottleneck.We start…
Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)Episode: Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Gracious James Eluvathingal about…
n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalEpisode: n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability…
Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)Episode: Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Danny Teller, a DevOps Architect and Tech Lead Manager…
Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAEpisode: Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCAThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian kicks off the new year with one theme: automation is getting faster, and that makes blast radius and oversight matter more…
Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)Episode: Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Eric Paatey, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who’s been…
Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)Episode: Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and…
GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIEpisode: GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CIThis week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to…
IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraEpisode: IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps.First up, IBM is buying Confluent for…
AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingEpisode: AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run…
Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsEpisode: Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsIn this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD…
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AI where it actually touches operations — copilots and coding agents wired into CI/CD, LLM-assisted root cause analysis, and the AIOps pitch that ranges from genuinely useful to expensively wrong.
Is it hype or practical?
It stays skeptical without being dismissive: agentic workflows that ship real code, the prompt-injection attack surface, and where a model belongs in the loop versus where a human still signs off.
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Engineers and leaders working out how to let AI speed up delivery without handing it the keys to production.
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