Talking about #Kubernetes + AI is confusing, as there are three types of job roles doing this work. I wrote about what I'm seeing across dozens of #DevOps teams I've talked to this year and predicting what K8s will look like with agents built-in www.bretfisher.com/newsletters/...

A CNCF Kubernetes “super distro” with built-in agents and all the fixin’s. OpenChoreo is on the stream this week, so we can get nerdy and explain how it’s different from that other distro. Click Notify to join us Thursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-y...

We knew the tokens were subsidized. We used Opus with glee. Now we get to add cost as the next dimension to this already complex equation, which carries a non-zero risk of costing more than it’s worth to implement

One of my favorite quirks of Opus (all LLM models?) is how they voluntarily estimate labor time, saying "Cost of this feature: Small. Half-day of...." and I'm thinking, bro... you and I both know you'll be done in 5 minutes, stop the humble brag

Releasing a #GitHub Actions Security scanner on the stream youtube.com/live/7rAn7Qr...

/me Reminds myself again that we're living through an incredible moment in our software careers, and to take a minute, lean back, and be present in the chaos that we will tell tales of in a decade or two. Every day could have moments of eureka, dread... or both, and that's a rare experience in life

Streaming about agents shaping the future cloud (aka I have no idea what I'm doing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Av...

I shipped 4 more videos on how different agent harnesses deal with AGENTS and CLAUDE md files. The Agentic DevOps guild has now had 8 weeks of meetups with ~40 engineers representing their teams in adopting AI in CI and platform engineering roles www.bretfisher.com/theguild

on stream: gonna test out some agent harness sandboxes youtube.com/live/p3g7-fz...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: AI SREs, Chat With Your Infrastructure with Anyshift. Have a listen:

joining @vfarcic.bsky.social aka DevOps Toolkit for a talk about AI in your DevOps www.youtube.com/live/PClC7l0...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps: Can AI Agents Safely Become DevOps Engineers?. Have a listen:

East Coast is for #devopsdays! #Nashville is in two weeks, and I have a 20% off coupon for ya: DODBRET-GET20OFF Talks include stress-testing AI agents, AI “slop wrangling”, Docker + MCP, and using agent skills and MCP for IaC. Checkout the program: devopsdays.org/events/2026-... #devops

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps: Our Favorite Agent Setups. Have a listen:

#GOTOpodcast: @bretfisher.com & @eltonstoneman.bsky.social talk #Docker. -> what still matters -> where people get stuck -> the gap between “it runs” and “I know what I’m doing” -> why fundamentals still show up in every real system 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

🎙️ Just published podcast episode 193: Docker AI, what’s new with MCP, Agents, Sandboxes, and more

Live RN. Claude Code vs. OpenCode. I've used both for 4+ months back and forth. #OpenCode speaks to me, and I love it's client/server architecture, but CC has an edge in some areas. I'm no expert yet, but I've got 12 reasons I like OC better! youtube.com/live/yLCq3Sx... #ClaudeCode

The Agentic DevOps Podcast is back! Just in time for your flight home from #kubecon agenticdevops.fm/episodes/fou...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps: Four Months Felt Like Four Years. Have a listen:

Which is more active and more authentic at #kubecon, X or Bluesky? I asked Claude for analysis of last two days. Across both, 2/3rd of posts are corporate accounts or humans promoting, with 1/3rd being genuine experiences and shared learnings. X has more posts, but Bluesky has more "real humans"

Big announcement: The Agentic DevOps Guild is open! It's an AI+DevOps all-in-one learning accelerator of courses, meetups, and community. Helping people adopt agents in #DevOps, #platformengineering, and #SRE is all I think about now 😂. I missed #kubecon to launch this 😭 www.bretfisher.com/theguild

🎙️ Just published podcast episode 192: Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar

I'll be live streaming at 1pm EDT today (UTC-4) with my friend from Docker, Michael Irwin. Join us as we talk through the last six months of product releases and major feature announcements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9h...

My friend Brian Christner (former Docker Captain) and I go through our AI harnesses, agents, models, and what we’re playing with right now. #OpenClaw, #OpenCode, #Claude Code, #Copilot, and all of it. Today at 1pm US ET. youtube.com/live/yh6zPMM...

gonna talk more about this weeks GitHub Actions attack on Trivy and other open source projects youtube.com/live/zkT-Bg8...

🎙️ Just published podcast episode 191: Your Images are Out of Date (probably) - The Silent Rebuilds problem

Gonna talk about my #Opencode and #GitHub #Copilot setup in a few youtube.com/live/LrBoWZ2...

🎙️ Just published podcast episode 190: AI Wins and Misses for 2025

Years ago, internet told me "balls out" was a sailor metaphor for fully stocked cannon balls, but ChatGPT says that's folklore and it likely came from pilots referring to full throttle because the "balls" on their control sticks were fully "out"

🎙️ Just published podcast episode 189: Find your K8s happy path with RawKode Academy

Streaming some CI testing of AI #GitHub Actions youtube.com/live/UIklvek...

#GitHub Copilot Pro Tip™. Copilot has lots of features/models, including the new Copilot Memory, but many are disabled by default. Check your settings: github.com/settings/cop...

Aaron is so good at getting to the heart of why we are devs, and it's why his content and courses stand out as something I always read and watch.

Paul is a national treasure www.youtube.com/shorts/VhzJx...

My stream/podcast is back in 2026! On Thursday's stream, the founders of @plakarkorp.bsky.social join me to walk us through their open-source cloud backup solution. #DevOpsandDockerTalk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpt4...

Being a Discord Server admin of a popular non-gaming topic has gotten so bad in the last few years, with daily spammers and scammers getting through *even with the highest level of protection -> phone number verification* I'm thinking of moving any paid community off the platform

Google ruined Nest (not a secret) and they keep giving me new reasons to leave. After 4 years of bugging me to migrate my Nest acct to a Google "personal" one, I had to create a Gmail, add a cc, buy a plan, migrate devices, and then Google promptly locked me out saying it's a bot account. Awesome

we're liveeeeeeeee!

My last stream of the year is Thursday! @mehtaverse-hq.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social join me to rant about our AI tools and what we'll still be using in 2026 and what we're leaving to gather dust in 2025. What AI dev tools are you still using vs. quiting? www.youtube.com/live/BX9lPK1...

Do you manage container image builds? I've wrapped up a major edit on my Silent Rebuilds tutorial and repo. Weeks of work! New blog and video content. #Docker #GitHub #GitHubActions www.bretfisher.com/silent-rebui...

My bank can't keep statements after a year, but Amazon still remembers what I purchased in 2000, including this banger. Only 1.8 stars? They must have hated the ending.

I need to tell you once again, how to secure your #GitHub Actions, on stream rn youtube.com/live/jvcoH7A...

If you saw my video introducing "Cool Bret" for #KubeCon ( watch it first, below), you might not realize how many takes are needed during recording...

#GPT 5.1 is wild with how it talks to me. It just gave me a guide for implementing some #GitHub security features and titled it "Putting it together like a DevOps adult".... I want to be a #DevOps adult. How can I be that?

#npm is not having a good year.

What Kubecon trends did everyone see?

FYI: most of the #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA videos are up on youtube, should hopefully be all there by end of next week! www.youtube.com/@cncf/videos

What's your favorite #KubeCon talk this week? Did you hear others recommend one? Let's make a list of the hits

My fav part of #kubecon is meeting students and podcast guests IRL!

I'm Stoked! Tuesday. #KubeCon. 6:40pm during KubeCrawl. Come On Down to the CVE Price Is Right at the @chainguard.dev booth with me and @adrianmouat.com, seeing who can guess the closest (but not over!) the CVE count of popular open source project images for prizes #DevOps #DevSecOps #Sponsored