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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 support in AKS

Azure Updates

2026-01-21

Ubuntu 24.04 is now generally available as a node OS on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) beginning with Kubernetes version 1.32. The Ubuntu 24.04 node image on AKS uses containerd 2.0 as the default container runtime. This gives customers a supported, modern OS option when planning OS upgrades for their clusters.

k8s: Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-01-21

Kubernetes has launched the Checkpoint Restore Working Group to advance integration of checkpoint/restore functionality (primarily via the CRIU ecosystem) into Kubernetes. The WG will explore use cases like faster startup, resource optimization for interactive AI workloads, fault-tolerance for long runs, interruption-aware scheduling, live Pod migration, and forensic checkpointing, and invites contributors to join meetings, Slack, and the mailing list.

security: A new era of agents, a new era of posture

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-01-21

Microsoft's post argues that the rise of autonomous AI agents is changing how organizations operate and requires a rethinking of security posture because increased agent autonomy expands the attack surface.

github: CodeQL 2.23.9 has been released

GitHub

2026-01-20

GitHub announced the release of CodeQL 2.23.9, an update to the static analysis engine used by GitHub code scanning. The release notes indicate there are no user-facing changes; the announcement appeared on the GitHub Blog (2026-01-20).

security: Four priorities for AI-powered identity and network access security in 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-01-20

The Microsoft Security Blog post outlines four key identity and network access priorities for 2026, aimed at strengthening an organization’s identity security baseline by leveraging AI and modern access controls.

github: Strengthen your supply chain with code-to-cloud traceability and SLSA Build Level 3 security

GitHub

2026-01-20

GitHub now lets you link build artifacts—such as containers and binaries—to GitHub and attach storage and deployment context even when those artifacts live outside GitHub. This capability provides code-to-cloud traceability and supports meeting SLSA Build Level 3 security requirements by capturing provenance and deployment context for external artifacts.

github: Enterprise-scoped budgets that exclude cost center usage in public preview

GitHub

2026-01-20

GitHub announced a public preview that lets Enterprise customers create enterprise-scoped budgets which exclude cost-center usage so parts of an enterprise can be allowed additional usage while other parts remain limited.

k8s: Uniform API server access using clientcmd

Kubernetes Official Blog

2026-01-19

This article explains how to use the clientcmd library (part of client-go) to make Go CLI tools access the Kubernetes API with the same kubeconfig/kubectl semantics users expect. It covers loading rules, configuration overrides, building and binding flags, merging behavior, creating a merged ClientConfig (interactive or non-interactive), and obtaining a kubernetes client, plus relevant gotchas and an example.

github: GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode

GitHub

2026-01-16

GitHub announced a formal partnership with OpenCode that enables authentication of GitHub Copilot subscriptions (Pro, Pro+, Business, Enterprise) on the OpenCode platform, allowing subscribers to use Copilot with OpenCode.

github: Rate limiting for actions cache entries

GitHub

2026-01-16

GitHub announced a new rate limit for Actions cache uploads: repositories are limited to 200 new cache entry uploads per minute. Downloads of cache entries are not affected.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: User delegation SAS for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues

Azure Updates

2026-01-16

Microsoft has announced public preview of User Delegation SAS (user-delegation shared access signatures) for Azure Tables, Azure Files, and Azure Queues, extending support that was previously generally available only for blobs.

github: Secret scanning extended metadata to be automatically enabled for certain repositories

GitHub

2026-01-15

GitHub secret scanning will add support for extended metadata checks in repository security configurations, with the change taking effect on February 18, 2026. Extended metadata is implemented as a nested feature under existing validity checks and will be automatically enabled for certain repositories.