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6 articlesEKS clusters lag on an AWS auth deprecation, per The New Stack
The New Stack reports that 81% of Amazon EKS clusters still run an AWS EKS authentication method the vendor has deprecated. For platform teams whose deploy pipelines target EKS, the number reads as a migration flag against the auth path baked into kubeconfigs, CI service accounts and IaC modules.
Aug 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringGateway API v1.6 promotes TCPRoute and UDPRoute to Standard, and puts a clock on the v1alpha2 shapes
The June 30 release of Kubernetes Gateway API v1.6 graduates raw L4 TCPRoute and UDPRoute to the Standard channel under v1, deprecates their v1alpha2 counterparts, and moves remaining experimental resources into a separate API group so the boundary between stable and unstable shapes stops being a naming convention.
Aug 5, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringGitHub sets July 30 as the hard shutdown for GitHub Models
GitHub published a July 1 changelog entry confirming GitHub Models will be fully retired on July 30, 2026. The earlier closure to new customers now has a matching end date, and any pipeline still calling into the service has a fixed migration window of roughly four weeks.
Jul 5, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoSecurity & supply chainAzure DevOps issuer in WIF service connections heads for July 2027 retirement
Microsoft has set July 1, 2027 as the retirement date for the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation service connections, pushing Azure Pipelines that already moved to secretless auth onto the shared Microsoft Entra issuer over the next year.
Jun 22, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringGitHub closes its Models playground to new customers and routes new work to Azure AI Foundry
GitHub is retiring GitHub Models, its in-platform AI playground. Per DevOps.com, the feature is closed to new customers as of June 16; existing users keep playground and API access, and GitHub directs new projects to Azure AI Foundry.
Jun 19, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoSecurity & supply chainDocker Content Trust gets a sunset date. The harder question is what you sign with next.
Docker has published a formal retirement plan for Docker Content Trust and the Notary v1 service at notary.docker.io, ten years after DCT shipped. The migration is mostly mechanical, the strategic question, about whether anyone downstream was actually verifying anything, is the part the guide cannot answer for you.
Jun 16, 2026 · Tomás Vega