{"podcast":{"title":"Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News","slug":"ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","podcast_index_feed_id":7591275,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.shipitweekly.fm/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/ship-it-weekly/20260103_010109_fc16278a46c7b2c61123ed668a34f79d.jpg","author":"Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast","episode_count":55,"summary":"Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture. This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time. Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own en…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:20:39.423055+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275"},"episode":{"title":"AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production Risk","slug":"ai-agents-get-api-access-and-identity-github-copilot-cloud-agents-mcp-auth-ansible-automation-openai-daybreak-and-the-new-production-risk","published_at":"2026-05-14T23:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275/ai-agents-get-api-access-and-identity-github-copilot-cloud-agents-mcp-auth-ansible-automation-openai-daybreak-and-the-new-production-risk","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ship-it-weekly-devops-sre-platform-and-cloud-engineering-news-7591275","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/ship-it-weekly/2826096","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/356364/2826096/ship-it-weekly/2026_05_14_23_39_34_4810d960-886c-4dc7-a1a8-e370033bc223.mp3","summary":"This episode of Ship It Weekly is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. Brian covers GitHub making Copilot cloud agent tasks available through a REST API, Auth0 bringing authentication and authorization to MCP servers, Red Hat positioning Ansible as a trusted execution layer for agentic IT operations, and OpenAI Daybreak pushing AI deeper into security research and remediation. The bigger thread this week is authority: what these agents can reach, what they can change, who approved the action, and who owns the outcome when something breaks. Brian also covers Discord’s ScyllaDB automation work, AWS GuardDuty crypto mining detection, queues and back pressure, and a Datadog PostgreSQL case where an index scan was still painfully slow. Sponsored by Guardsquare https://hubs.ly/Q04fJgkJ0 Links GitHub Copilot cloud agent tasks via REST API https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-13-start-copilot-cloud-agent-tasks-via-the-rest-api/ GitHub REST API endpoints for agent tasks https://docs.github.com/en/rest/agent-tasks/agent-tasks Auth0 Auth for MCP is now generally available https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-auth-for-mcp-servers-generally-available/ Red Hat on Ansible as the execution layer for agentic IT https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-establishes-ansible-automation-platform-trusted-execution-layer-it-operations-agentic-era OpenAI Daybreak https://openai.com/daybreak/ Discord automates ScyllaDB clusters at scale https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-automates-scylladb-clusters-at-scale AWS GuardDuty crypto mining detection and prevention https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/detecting-and-preventing-crypto-mining-in-your-aws-environment/ Queues do not absorb load, they delay failure https://dzone.com/articles/queues-d…","meta_description":"This episode of Ship It Weekly is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. 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