DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
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Tutorials With the release of Junie, the AI coding agent by JetBrains, PhpStorm has entered the realm of agentic IDEs. Now, the PhpStorm IDE doesn’t just provide classical developer productivity tools and AI assistance features, but can also do massive amounts of work for PHP developers autonomously. Unlike other coding agent plugins, Junie is native to PhpStorm, which means it uses PhpStorm’s core features, such as source code navigation, project structure navigation, Search Everywhere, and code inspections to plan and execute multistep tasks and supervise the outcome. You can install Junie like any other PhpStorm plugin and open it in…
Backups are like insurance; you don’t need them every day, but when disaster strikes, such as accidental file deletion, a disk failure, or a ransomware attack, it’s enough to ruin everything if you’re not prepared. That’s where smart backup planning comes in. In this guide, I’ll show you how to schedule incremental backups using rsync and cron. I’ll explain what incremental backups are, how rsync works under the hood, and how to automate the whole process with cron. What Is an Incremental Backup? An incremental backup means you’re only backing up the files that have changed since the last backup.…
SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend, with lots of friends, a family atmosphere, and some amazing speakers from whom I learn many things.This year I wasn’t picked as a speaker, which is fine. Their committee didn’t like my submissions for some reason, which happens. I’m disappointed, but that’s it. I am fine with any event who chooses me or choose not to have me. However, since Grant and Kellyn were accepted, I planned a trip to Cambridge for the following week. A month or so ago, Redgate asked me to just attend…
Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common pitfalls.Image from haalkab on Pixabay.Kubernetes is hands-down the go-to tool for managing containerized applications, yet it comes with one specific challenge: security! With its complexity, ensuring your Kubernetes deployment is secure and aligned with best practices can be overwhelming.But there’s good news. Tools like Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper are here to help you protect your clusters. These policy enforcement engines make sure your Kubernetes resources are safe and compliant before they even enter your cluster. Sounds like a game-changer, right?Here’s how these tools can simplify your Kubernetes…
CloudBees today began providing early access Model Context Protocol Server to its Unify platform for centrally managing DevOps workflows across multiple types of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP has emerged as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence agents with each other and various data sources.Shawn Ahmed, chief product officer for CloudBees, said MCP will enable CloudBees to extend the reach of its Unify platform to AI agents that are becoming incorporated into DevOps workflows. The CloudBees MCP Server provides a lightweight, standardized interface between large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made Amazon Inspector, a code scanning tool for surfacing vulnerabilities that is designed to be natively integrated with GitHub and GitLab platforms, generally available.Announced at the AWS re:Inforce 2025 conference, Amazon Inspector combines a static application security testing (SAST) tool for analyzing application source-code with a software composition analysis (SCA) tool for evaluating third-party dependencies and an ability to scan infrastructure as code (IaC) for valid definitions.Findings from these scans are then surfaced both in the Amazon Inspector console and within the source code management platform as fast feedback for the developers.Mitch Ashley, vice…
Application Developer – frontend focused Full-time, remote (Canada only) 1-year contract, $100,000/year THE PROJECT We are working on exciting new applications where you will join the development team as an integral part of its ongoing development and success. We are striving to offer our clients and internal teams the best solutions in our industry. You will be primarily focused on the front-end, driving the responsive design, styling, and positive user-experience. Occasionally, you may be called upon for light back-end development, especially when key members are busy or on vacation. Additional side projects and tasks will be assigned to the development…
One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other people do and seeing how well the AI works. In this case, I took a Prompt from Louis and tried to see how well it worked. This post describes the results from a few models.This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems.The Challenge Using ClaudeLouis was using an AI to generate some test data to play with the new Regex functionality in SQL Server 2025. He put this in ChatGPT: “create a set of random string data with 1000 rows for a sql…
In the age of AI-driven development, teams face a dual imperative: Harness the speed and creativity of code-generation tools while upholding the strictest standards of security, privacy and regulatory compliance. Nowhere is this more critical than in regulated environments — think banking or healthcare — where a single misstep can expose sensitive customer data or run afoul of GDPR, PSD2 and other consumer-protection mandates. How, then, can modern enterprises leverage AI to increase efficiency without increasing risk? The answer lies in a rock-solid CI/CD foundation that weaves governance into every stage of the software lifecycle. Balancing Speed Versus Control CI/CD, continuous integration and…