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13 articlesGoogle's pitch: put Agent Substrate on top of GKE Agent Sandbox, and call it the AI-agent runtime
Two months after GKE Agent Sandbox went GA in May 2026, Google introduced a follow-up called Agent Substrate in the same post. The New Stack's read is that Google now wants Kubernetes to be the runtime for AI agents on the primitives GKE already uses for production services.
Jul 26, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringGitHub's MCP Server tracks the stateless MCP spec, and the Redis session drops out
Ahead of a 28 July 2026 move to a stateless MCP core, GitHub says its MCP Server has been updated to run without per-session Redis state. For teams wiring coding agents into CI, that changes what the server has to remember between calls.
Jul 24, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringHashiCorp's tfpolicy pulls policy-as-code back inside Terraform
HashiCorp introduced tfpolicy, a policy-as-code framework built into Terraform with rules written in HCL, now in public beta on HCP Terraform. For platform teams currently running Sentinel, OPA or Conftest alongside every plan, the change collapses one language and one runtime out of the pipeline.
Jul 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringPreview environments were built for humans. The traffic changed.
A new essay reframes preview and staging environments as a traffic-shaped workload rather than a ticket queue, now that coding agents open pull requests in bursts. Platform teams facing agent-speed demand have to treat environment provisioning as capacity planning.
Jul 19, 2026 · Priya NairDeployment strategiesProgressive rollouts are solved. The validation gate isn't.
A New Stack opinion argues that progressive rollouts are a solved problem while the validation step that actually gates them is still hand-built. From an on-call chair, that reframing is overdue.
Jul 18, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringGitLab packages Duo Agent Flows so multi-step runs share the platform's controls
GitLab is naming a shape for multi-step agent work, Duo Agent Flows, that inherits the same access controls, triggers and review gates as any other pipeline object. The pitch is a middle ground between chat that only answers and homegrown scripts that go stale the moment the platform changes.
Jul 17, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringHarness ships Autonomous Worker Agents, making any pipeline step a Markdown-defined AI agent
Harness has launched Autonomous Worker Agents, letting enterprises replace fixed pipeline scripts with AI agents that inherit the same identity, sandbox, policy engine, and audit trail the platform already uses for scripted steps.
Jul 2, 2026 · Priya NairInfrastructure as codeAI-generated IaC isn't burying Infrastructure as Code. It is stress-testing it.
A DevOps.com opinion piece argues the newest wave of 'IaC is dead' takes has the news backwards: AI-written infrastructure code is arriving faster than most teams can review, and the platforms that absorbed the volume safely are the ones that bought the boring controls first.
Jun 20, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringBlock runs its coding-agent fleet from Slack. The chat is the easy part.
The New Stack describes how Block manages and supervises a fleet of AI coding agents from Slack, framing the real problem as operating across many services rather than inside a single repository. For a CI/CD practitioner, the interesting shift is from prompt quality to the control plane around the agents.
Jun 19, 2026 · Priya NairPlatform engineeringGitHub's agent finder lets Copilot look up its own tools
GitHub shipped agent finder for Copilot, a discovery layer that searches MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents and tools instead of pre-wiring them into a context window. It implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery specification developed with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face and Microsoft.
Jun 18, 2026 · Priya NairPlatform engineeringFlipkart's chaos platform runs 90% of fault injection in staging, ships five fixes back to LitmusChaos
Flipkart's central reliability engineering team won the CNCF End User Case Study contest for a multi-tenant chaos engineering platform on Kubernetes that runs roughly 90% of its experiments in staging clusters and contributed five fixes upstream to LitmusChaos. The next step on the roadmap is to wire chaos testing into the CI/CD pipeline as a mandatory phase.
Jun 18, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoComplianceDigital sovereignty pulls CI/CD architecture inside the compliance perimeter
A new CNCF write-up reframes the regulatory shift from data residency to digital sovereignty as a set of architectural patterns for cloud-native platforms, and once sovereignty is a platform property, runner location, pipeline placement and artifact storage move with it.
Jun 18, 2026 · Maya OkonkwoPlatform engineeringHashiCorp ships tfctl, a first-party CLI for HCP Terraform and TFE
HashiCorp has released tfctl, the first dedicated CLI for HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise platform operations. Every command supports --dry-run, deletes require interactive confirmation, and the binary is built on the HCP Terraform OpenAPI spec.
Jun 17, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo