Terraform 1.16: Import Blocks in Modules, JSON Output, and Action Failure Modes Explained HashiCorp shipped Terraform 1.16.0 on August 26, 2026, and buried in the changelog is a fix for one of the most-requested Terraform limitations of the last few years: import blocks can finally target resources declared inside a …

Kubernetes 1.37 HPA Scale-to-Zero: Setup Guide and Cold-Start Gotchas Kubernetes v1.37 ("Garhwal") shipped on August 26, 2026, and the change most teams will actually feel is quiet: HorizontalPodAutoscaler scale-to-zero graduated from Alpha to Beta, and it's enabled by default. If you're running batch consumers, queue …

GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners: Fix Your Version Before the September 25 Enforcement If your CI/CD pipeline runs on self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, GitHub has already started intermittently blocking outdated ones. Brownouts began August 24, 2026 on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and they escalate on a …

Amazon EC2 Application Status Checks: Setup Guide and Auto Scaling Integration On August 12, 2026, AWS shipped a status check type EC2 has never had: one that actually asks your application whether it's healthy, instead of asking the VM. The existing system and instance status checks only tell you the hypervisor is …

Docker VMM Public Beta: What Docker's First-Party Virtualization Engine Changes On August 12, 2026, Docker shipped the public beta of Docker VMM — a virtualization layer it built and now owns end to end, replacing the third-party engines Docker Desktop has relied on since it first needed a Linux VM on Mac and Windows. …

GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps Get Refresh Tokens: How to Migrate Off Long-Lived Access Tokens If you've built an OAuth App or a GitHub App that authenticates on behalf of users, there's a decent chance it's still handing out a gho_ or ghu_ token that never expires. On August 14, 2026, GitHub shipped token rotation for …

Terraform AzureRM Provider 5.0: Breaking Changes and Upgrade Guide HashiCorp shipped AzureRM provider 5.0 on July 27, 2026 (a 5.0.1 patch followed shortly after), and it's not a routine version bump. If your Terraform configs have been running fine against 4.x for months and you run terraform init -upgrade without …

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock: Grounding OpenAI Models Without Building a RAG Pipeline AWS shipped Web Search on Amazon Bedrock this month — a built-in tool that lets supported OpenAI models pull current information from the web mid-request and cite their sources, without you standing up a retrieval pipeline, a search …

CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors: Setup Guide for EC2 and ECS If you've been running your own OpenTelemetry Collector just to get Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch, AWS shipped the fix in late July 2026: managed Prometheus collectors. You hand CloudWatch a scrape config and a VPC connection, and it provisions, …

GitHub Copilot Added Kimi K3: How to Enable It (and Why GitHub Paused the Rollout on Day One) On August 6, 2026, GitHub shipped Kimi K3 — Moonshot AI's open-weight model — as a selectable model inside GitHub Copilot. Then, the same day, GitHub added an editor's note to its own changelog post saying it had paused the …