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devops+ai: 🔥Teaching Agentic Strands Agents to assume Cross-Account IAM Roles and Read AWS Resources🔥

Let's do DevOps

2025-11-12

The article explains how to teach Agentic Strands agents to assume cross-account AWS IAM roles so they can read resources (for example, to answer operational questions like which VMs are running high CPU or low on disk). It covers the motivation, high-level workflow (AssumeRole via STS), and practical/security considerations for enabling safe cross-account access by autonomous agents.

github: Auto model selection for Copilot in Visual Studio in public preview

GitHub

2025-11-11

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now offers an 'Auto' option in the model picker (public preview) that selects the best Copilot model for you automatically.

k8s: Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-11-11

Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announced the retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026; after that there will be no further releases, bug fixes, or security updates. Users are advised to migrate to Gateway API or another Ingress controller.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: LocalDNS for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announces general availability of LocalDNS, a built-in local DNS caching solution designed to reduce DNS resolution delays and improve reliability for large-scale clusters that experience high query volumes or upstream outages.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Insights in Azure Migrate

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Migrate is in public preview with integrated Security insights that let customers assess potential risks in their on-premises environments and receive actionable recommendations to mitigate those risks during migration planning.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Vaulted Backup for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Backup’s vaulted protection for ADLS Gen2 is now generally available, providing secure, off‑site, independent backups of Data Lake Storage to help organizations meet resilience and compliance requirements.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Firewall now generally available: DNS flow trace logs provide deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths, delivering richer telemetry to help troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure WAF JavaScript challenge on Azure Front Door

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure announced the general availability of a JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door to strengthen bot mitigation.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Flatcar Container Linux for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure announced a public preview of Flatcar Container Linux as a node OS option for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The offering aims to reduce configuration drift and manual changes by providing a lightweight, immutable, container-optimized Linux distribution with automated updates and a smaller attack surface, improving node consistency, security, and operational predictability.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Linux OS Guard for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Linux with OS Guard for AKS, a new node-level protection designed to strengthen kernel and OS defenses for cloud-native workloads. The feature aims to mitigate sophisticated threats such as rootkits, container escapes, and unauthorized code execution to provide stronger security guarantees for Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Agentic CLI for AKS

Azure Updates

2025-11-11

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is launching an agentic, AI-powered command-line experience (in public preview) to simplify diagnosing and resolving cluster issues by automating navigation of logs, telemetry, and diagnostics.

dotnet: Announcing .NET 10

.NET

2025-11-11

Microsoft announced .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release to date, with platform-wide updates and new features across areas like ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, and Aspire.