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Qovery Q1 2026 Demo Day

See our latest retrospective and live updates. We're showcasing Event-Based Autoscaling via KEDA, allowing you to scale on business metrics that actually matter. We’ll also debut Copilot Troubleshoot to solve complex deployment failures instantly, demonstrate how MCP Agents are setting a new standard for your workflow, and share more about NGINX migration. Qovery is the Kubernetes management platform built for the AI era.

Ansible Conditionals: Complete Guide to when Statements [2026]

Last updated: April 2026 Playbooks that run every task every time aren't really automation. They're scripts. Real playbooks make decisions: only restart a service when its config changed, only install a package on Debian hosts, only send an alert when a prior task failed. That decision-making comes from Ansible conditionals.

Balancing DevOps Speed and Cybersecurity: Where Risks Arise

In modern development, speed is one of the primary competitive advantages. Teams release new versions daily, infrastructure is deployed in minutes, and the pipeline from commit to production keeps getting shorter. This creates real business value - but it is also an area where security risks quietly accumulate. The problem is not that DevOps teams ignore security. More often, they are forced to choose between speed and thorough validation. And this choice, made dozens of times each week, gradually builds up security technical debt that sooner or later turns into a real incident.

Replace API Synthetics with Traffic Replay

The alert fires at 2 AM. Your observability platform’s synthetic test just failed. Login is broken. So you open your laptop, pull up the dashboard, and stare at a single red dot: the browser test. You know the problem is somewhere in the stack, but not where. Is it the auth service? The token validator? The user profile API? The API gateway timing out? You’re now about to spend the next 45 minutes correlating traces, tailing logs, and manually hitting endpoints until you find it.

Why public sector teams are moving to sovereign cloud providers

Public sector organizations have long relied on global cloud providers to modernize infrastructure and scale digital services. However, priorities are shifting. Today, decisions are shaped not just by cost or performance, but by where data is stored, who controls it, and how it is governed. Increasing regulatory pressure, geopolitical uncertainty, and rising expectations around data privacy are all driving this change.

Dark Code: The AI-Generated Software Nobody Understands

The biggest risk to your product isn’t AI-generated code that doesn’t work. It’s generated code that seems fine. AI doesn’t optimize for correctness. It creates something passable. Something that passes the smell test. And when everybody in the industry is pushed to move faster and do more with less, you end up shipping software that looks correct. It passed your quick visual check. It passed all the tests. But no one ever fully understood it.

The Complete Guide to Feature Testing for Modern DevOps Teams | Harness Blog

Today’s teams are challenged to ship fast without breaking things. Traditional deployment strategies tie every code change directly to user exposure, forcing teams to trade velocity for safety and live with stressful, all-or-nothing releases. Feature testing changes that. In modern DevOps, you don't have to cross your fingers during a big-bang rollout.

Understanding Environment Drift in Enterprise Delivery | ENV Zero Topic Talk

Welcome to another ENV Zero Topic Talk! In today’s episode, we explore the concept of environment drift in enterprise delivery and why it’s crucial to manage it. Over time, configurations across your environments can deviate, leading to errors and inconsistencies. ENV Zero helps detect and automatically correct these discrepancies, ensuring that your environments stay in sync. Discover how proactive drift management can improve stability, reliability, and predictability in your delivery process.

7 Types of Load Testing Explained: Load, Stress, Spike, Soak & More | Harness

Discover the 7 most important types of load testing that every developer, DevOps engineer, and QA team should know in 2026. Whether you're building scalable applications, preparing for traffic surges, or ensuring system reliability, understanding these load testing types is essential for modern software performance testing. In this quick video from Harness, we break down.