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We’reproud to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platformsfor a second year in a row, and thefurthestto the right in Completenessof Vision. The post Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-NativeApplication Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Every developer remembers their first docker run hello-world. The mix of excitement and wonder as that simple command pulls an image, creates a container, and displays a friendly message. But what if AI could make that experience even better? As a technical writer on Docker’s Docs team, I spend my days thinking about developer experience....
Enterprise development teams have faced an impossible choice: move fast with cutting-edge AI coding tools or maintain the security and governance standards their organizations demand. Today, that tradeoff no longer exists. Anthropic has announced that Claude Code, their powerful AI coding agent, is now bundled with Team and Enterprise plans—addressing what the company calls “the […]
HoundDog.ai today made generally available a namesake static code scanner that enables security and privacy teams to enforce guardrails on sensitive data embedded in large language model (LLM) prompts or exposed artificial intelligence (AI) data sinks, such as logs and temporary files, before any code is pushed to production. Company CEO Amjad Afanah said the […]
The Kubestronauts program has been growing at an incredible pace. We recently celebrated over 2000 kubestronauts across the globe, and today we’re excited to celebrate another milestone: over 100 Golden Kubestronauts have achieved Golden status in...
Last week, I told you it was coming. Today, I’m thrilled to say it’s here: Futurum Signal is live. And while “live” is one of the most overused words in tech, in this case it’s the real deal. Futurum Signal isn’t just another PDF report dressed up with a quadrant. It’s a continuously updated, AI-powered […]
Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools. The post Agent Factory: Building your first AI agent with the tools to deliver real-world outcomes appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
The cloud native landscape is constantly evolving, and staying ahead of the curve means more than just reading documentation—it means connecting with the people who are shaping the future. That’s exactly what the inaugural Kubernetes Community...
The market for pre-hardened container images is experiencing explosive growth as security-conscious organizations pursue the ultimate efficiency: instant security with minimal operational overhead. The value proposition is undeniably compelling—hardened images with minimal dependencies promise security "out of the box," enabling teams to focus on building and shipping applications rather than constantly revisiting...
R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
Docker periodically highlights blog posts featuring use cases and success stories from Docker partners and practitioners. This story was contributed by Dylen Turnbull and Timo Stark. With over 29 years in enterprise and open-source software development, Dylen Turnbull has held roles at Symantec, Veritas, F5 Networks, and most recently as a Developer Advocate for NGINX....
Building AI agents in the real world often involves more than just making model calls — it requires integrating with external tools, handling complex workflows, and ensuring the solution can scale in production. In this post, we’ll walk through a real-world developer setup for creating an agent using the Docker MCP Toolkit. To make things...
When we first introduced kagent on March 17th, 2025, we had a bold vision: to bring agentic AI to cloud native—empowering platforms and DevOps engineers to harness AI agents for solving real operational challenges. Fast forward...
Frontier Firms are moving beyond experimentation and into scaled transformation—powered by human-agent teams—by having agents as members of their team, reinventing processes, providing employees with new skills to scale their impact, and using a modern cloud foundation. The post Building the Frontier Firm with Microsoft Azure: The business case for cloud and AI modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]
A common pattern in today’s AI adoption is that businesses are investing heavily in GenAI capabilities, yet many are leaving significant value on the table by failing to pair it with Agentic AI. This matters because...
We’re so thrilled to be organizing another year of cloud native community in the Nation’s Capital. Past years have witnessed amazing presentations ranging from core Kubernetes topics to emerging trends in ML/AI, sustainability, virtual clusters and...
CVEs dominated the conversation at Black Hat 2025. Across sessions, booth discussions, and hallway chatter, it was clear that teams are feeling the pressure to manage vulnerabilities at scale. While scanning remains an important tool, the focus is shifting toward removing security debt before it enters the software supply chain. Hardened images, compliance-ready tooling, and...
Dragonfly v2.3.0 is released! Thanks to thecontributorswho made this release happen. We welcome you to visitd7y.iowebsite to learn more. Features Persistent Cache Task It designs to provide persistent caching for tasks. This tool can import...
AWS is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest on the “Ability to Execute” axis. We believe this reflects our ongoing commitment to giving customers the broadest and deepest set of capabilities to accelerate innovation as well as unparalleled security, reliability, and...
Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute.
This blog post was written by Docker Captains, experienced professionals recognized for their expertise with Docker. It shares their firsthand, real-world experiences using Docker in their own work or within the organizations they lead. Docker Captains are technical experts and passionate community builders who drive Docker’s ecosystem forward. As active contributors and advocates, they share...
At Imagine Learning, we strive to empower educators and inspire breakthrough moments for over 18 million students across the United States. As a digital-first education solutions provider, our mission is to deliver robust, reliable, and secure...
In Docker Desktop 4.44, we’ve focused on delivering enhanced reliability, tighter AI modeling controls, and simplified tool integrations so you can build on your terms. Docker Model Runner Enhancements Inspectable Model Runner Workflows Now you can inspect AI inference requests and responses directly from Docker Model Runner (DMR), helping you troubleshoot and debug model behavior...
This is Part 3 of our MCP Horror Stories series, where we examine real-world security incidents that validate the critical vulnerabilities threatening AI infrastructure and demonstrate how Docker MCP Toolkit provides enterprise-grade protection. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) promised to revolutionize how AI agents interact with developer tools, making GitHub repositories, Slack channels, and databases...
Photo by Diva Plavalaguna from Pexels Open source software proves that collective contribution creates collective value. However, as a contributor to Microcks, I have observed a concerning pattern that threatens the sustainability of the project and...
A survey of 1,519 application security stakeholders finds nearly all (98%) work for organizations that have experienced a security breach attributable to vulnerable code, with 81% acknowledging their organization has shipped code with known vulnerabilities into production environments. Conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Checkmarx, the survey also finds more than a quarter of organizations […]
My name is Diana Todea. I’m originally from Romania and have been living in Spain for the past nine years. I have worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Observability for the last three...
OpenKruiseis an open-source cloud-native application automation management suite. It is also a current incubating project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is a standard extension component based on Kubernetes that is widely used...
If you’re building tools and platforms for the DevOps and platform engineering community—or you’re on the buying side, trying to decide which ones to adopt—you’ve probably noticed a frustrating truth: most market analyst reports don’t keep up with the pace of the software delivery world. We’re in an era where a new CI/CD integration, a […]
What That Means for Devs and AI App Companies When GPT-5 dropped, OpenAI killed off a bunch of older APIs without much warning. A whole lot of apps face-planted overnight. If your app hard-codes itself to one provider, one API shape, or one model, this is the nightmare scenario. This is also different from losing...
AI is everywhere in cloud security right now. Nearly every product claims to be “AI-powered,” and copilots and chatbots promise to help teams interpret issues faster. But for most platform teams, understanding the problem isn’t the hard part. The real challenge is resolution. Cloud environments change quickly, and the backlog of security findings grows just […]
We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and technical leadership. These passionate individuals represent diverse regions and technical specialties, demonstrating notable expertise and dedication to knowledge sharing within the AWS community. From AI and machine learning to serverless architectures and security, our new Heroes showcase the […]
Instead of simply delivering information, agents reason, act, and collaborate—bridging the gap between knowledge and outcomes. Read more about agentic AI in Azure AI Foundry. The post Agent Factory: The new era of agentic AI—common use cases and design patterns appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
New SonarSource research shows LLMs like GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama-3.2 produce highly functional yet risky code — with frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, hard-coded credentials, and messy “code smells” that raise long-term tech debt.