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AWS Puts Elastic Beanstalk on EKS, CrowdSec Supply-Chain Breach, Critical Next.js RCE, Microsoft Disrupts EvilTokens & Why Fixing the Initial Compromise Isn’t Enough

This week on Ship It Weekly: AWS introduced Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode, allowing multiple applications to run on shared EKS infrastructure while AWS handles much of the Kubernetes complexity. CrowdSec published how a software supply-chain compromise led to attackers copying roughly 170 private repositories using a stolen OAuth token. A critical Next.js vulnerability in ImageResponse can lead to remote code execution through attacker-controlled SVG data. And Microsoft disrupted EvilTokens, a cybercrime platform linked to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes across 10,000 organizations. The bigger theme this week is what happens after trust has been established. Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode puts more infrastructure behind a managed abstraction, but shared infrastructure still means understanding isolation and blast radius. CrowdSec shows how an initial compromise can become a credential problem long after the malicious code is gone. Next.js shows how something as ordinary as generating a social preview image can expose a server-side execution path. And EvilTokens shows how attackers can use valid access to move faster once inside an account. In the lightning round: F5 has a critical BIG-IP APM vulnerability under active exploitation. GitHub Enterprise Cloud can now export an inventory of credentials with enterprise access, including PATs, SSH keys, OAuth tokens, and GitHub App credentials. Zyxel patched a vulnerability affecting GS1900 switches. And Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows has a privilege-escalation vulnerability that can lead to SYSTEM access. And the human closer comes back to CrowdSec. Removing the malicious package, patching the server, or reimaging the workstation does not necessarily end the incident. If an attacker already stole an OAuth token, cloud credential, SSH key, session, or registry credential, that access can survive long after the original compromise is gone. Containment means understanding not only how the attacker got in, but what they took with them Links AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode https://tsn.io/1xaV7 CrowdSec Supply-Chain Attack Analysis https://tsn.io/7yq2f Next.js ImageResponse Security Advisory https://tsn.io/8JvHp Microsoft: Disrupting EvilTokens https://tsn.io/DtbC9 Microsoft: EvilTokens and Device-Code Phishing https://tsn.io/ZzwtD F5 BIG-IP APM CVE-2026-94127 https://tsn.io/sFuKW GitHub Enterprise Credential Inventory https://tsn.io/7bpMn Zyxel GS1900 Security Advisory https://www.tellerstech.com/go/s-b2595852/ Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Vulnerability https://www.tellerstech.com/go/s-166d3119/ This Week’s On Call Brief https://tsn.io/Nnd8g Ship It Weekly https://tsn.io/NqkdP On Call Brief https://tsn.io/Gpz2d

E68

25 set 2026

17:18

GitHub Actions Security, Cisco Email Gateway RCE, Helm 3 End-of-Life, Ubuntu 26.04 Runners & Why “Nothing Changed” Is Never the Whole Story

This week on Ship It Weekly: GitHub Actions workflow execution protections are now generally available, giving organizations more control over who and what can trigger individual workflows. Cisco is patching critical vulnerabilities in Secure Email Gateway, including an actively exploited issue that can lead to remote command execution as root. Helm 3 has reached its final minor release and is heading toward end-of-life in February 2027. And GitHub’s ubuntu-latest Actions runner is preparing to move from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04. The bigger theme this week is infrastructure that changes even when your code does not. GitHub is making CI execution permissions more explicit, Helm teams now have a defined migration deadline, and the ubuntu-latest transition is a good example of how a completely unchanged workflow can suddenly be running in a different environment. Pinning everything forever is not necessarily the answer. The important part is knowing which dependencies are allowed to move and testing those changes deliberately. In the lightning round: GitHub Actions checks, workflow runs, and statuses will begin following your configured retention period on October 1. GitHub Advanced Security can now enforce configurations from the enterprise level. GitHub added API support for tracking when self-hosted Actions runner versions lose support. And AI Scan for pull requests can now be used without requiring CodeQL default setup. And the human closer starts with a sentence almost every infrastructure engineer has heard during an incident: “But nothing changed.” Maybe nothing changed in the application, but the runner image changed, a dependency moved, a certificate expired, DNS changed, or an external service behaved differently. Latest tags, loose version constraints, external APIs, and even support windows are dependencies. The goal is not to freeze everything forever. It is to avoid accidental mutability, where something can change without the team realizing it was ever allowed to change. Links GitHub Actions Workflow Execution Protections https://tsn.io/fbqif Cisco Secure Email Gateway Security Advisory https://tsn.io/jX2wk Helm 3 End of Life https://tsn.io/Ii7jb Ubuntu 26.04 GitHub Actions Runners and ubuntu-latest Migration https://tsn.io/7IJ9k GitHub Actions Retention Changes https://tsn.io/idFxy GitHub Advanced Security Configuration Enforcement https://tsn.io/8vRMx GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner Lifecycle API https://tsn.io/9UhY1 GitHub Code Scanning AI Scan https://tsn.io/ULAVW This Week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/go/26w38/ Ship It Weekly https://tsn.io/NqkdP On Call Brief https://tsn.io/Gpz2d

E67

19 set 2026

15:33

Amazon Linux 2027, GitHub Actions Cache Security, Secret-Scanning Merge Blocks, N-central CVSS 10 RCE, Karmada Graduation, ShieldCrash, CodeQL ARM64 & When Observability Fails Too

This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon Linux 2027 enters public preview with kernel 7.1+, SELinux enforcing by default, DNF5, newer language runtimes, AWS-LC, and an x86-64-v3 baseline. GitHub Actions adds explicit cache permissions to reduce cache-poisoning risk. GitHub can now block pull requests from merging when they introduce exposed secrets. And N-able N-central has a critical pre-auth RCE that Huntress says is being actively exploited in the wild. The bigger theme this week is catching problems before they turn into incidents. Amazon Linux 2027 gives teams time to test AMIs, bootstrap scripts, agents, Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD before the next platform generation becomes production reality. GitHub’s new cache controls make workflow trust boundaries explicit instead of leaving them implied. And secret-scanning rulesets move credential detection directly into the merge path, where developers can actually act on it. In the lightning round: Karmada graduates from the CNCF as multi-cluster and distributed AI scheduling grow, ShieldCrash research claims another Microsoft Defender patch bypass with SYSTEM-level access, CodeQL 2.27 adds native Linux ARM64 support, and Dependabot can now read private GitHub Packages without another personal access token. And the human closer is about what happens when observability shares the same failure domain as the thing it is watching. A full disk is bad enough. It gets worse when logs stop writing, monitoring data disappears, and the tools used to diagnose the outage start failing too. The takeaway is not that every monitoring component needs total isolation. It is that you should know what can blind you, and make sure at least one useful signal survives the failures you care about most. Links Amazon Linux 2027 Public Preview https://tsn.io/NHlEa Amazon Linux 2027 Overview and Preview Details https://tsn.io/izDYx Amazon Linux 2027 Known Issues and Preview Limitations https://tsn.io/tdugd GitHub Actions Cache Permissions with cache-mode https://tsn.io/8p94n Block Pull Requests with Exposed Secrets from Merging https://tsn.io/BspA2 N-able N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4 https://tsn.io/xredG Huntress: N-able N-central Vulnerability and Active Exploitation https://tsn.io/QjNd5 Karmada Graduates from the CNCF https://tsn.io/lcJGh Microsoft Defender ShieldCrash Zero-Day Research https://tsn.io/YfsJ6 CodeQL 2.27 Adds Linux ARM64 Support https://tsn.io/lxfnF Automatic Dependabot Access to GitHub-Hosted Registries https://tsn.io/pSilA Ship It Weekly https://www.tellerstech.com/go/siw/ On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/go/ocb/

E66

12 set 2026

14:47

AWS GWLB TCP Reset, Azure DevOps Live Migrations to GitHub, GitHub Runner Enforcement, Docker Root Risk, Lambda IAM Updates, PostgreSQL Upgrade Traps, SonicWall Zero-Days & Better Incident Reviews

E65

4 set 2026

17:26

Cloudflare Saves 100TB of RAM, AI Drives Server Prices Up, AWS Adds a Fourth London AZ, Route 53 DNS Self-Service, AKS eBPF Routing, Go 1.27, and the Danger of Hidden Infrastructure Assumptions

This week on Ship It Weekly: Cloudflare explains how five low-level optimizations to the cache behind 1.1.1.1 freed roughly 100 terabytes of RAM while also improving performance. OVHcloud is raising infrastructure prices as AI demand reshapes the memory supply chain. AWS adds a fourth Availability Zone to London, exposing automation that quietly assumed there would always be three. And Route 53 Global Resolver gets a cleaner cross-account model for DNS self-service. The bigger theme this week is assumptions. A few wasted bytes do not matter until you have 250 billion cache entries. A Region having three Availability Zones feels permanent until AWS adds a fourth. And centralized DNS governance works fine until every application team needs a networking ticket just to make a private zone resolvable. In the lightning round: new research looks at manipulating DRAM controller translation registers and the assumptions that creates for memory isolation, AKS eBPF Host Routing reaches general availability, CloudFront Functions can now put custom context directly into access logs, and Go 1.27 lands generic methods along with runtime, tooling, and standard-library improvements. And the human closer looks at an easy Kubernetes mistake: running kubectl against the wrong cluster. Because the active context belongs to the kubeconfig rather than a terminal tab, changing it in one shell can silently affect another. It is a good reminder that some friction is worth keeping around production, and that the safest guardrails live somewhere stronger than operator memory. Links Cloudflare: How We Saved 100 Terabytes of Memory by Optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS Cache https://www.tellerstech.com/go/s-9d6c2943/ OVHcloud Raises Prices as AI Memory Demand Reprices Non-AI Infrastructure https://tsn.io/tnaYj AWS Adds a Fourth Availability Zone to Europe (London) https://tsn.io/YfGxa Shared DNS Views with Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver https://tsn.io/WEyig DRAM Controller Register Manipulation Breaks CPU Memory Isolation https://tsn.io/QKr1x AKS eBPF Host Routing https://tsn.io/T3PMh CloudFront Functions Unified Logging https://tsn.io/nTXLn Go 1.27 https://tsn.io/vfXIT kubectl Ran on the Wrong Cluster? Fix Your Context Switching https://tsn.io/6LxfG This Week’s On Call Brief https://tsn.io/064QE Ship It Weekly https://www.tellerstech.com/go/siw/ On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/go/ocb/

E64

29 ago 2026

16:48

Ship It Conversations: Justin Garrison of Sidero Labs on Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, AI, Golden Paths, and Knowing What to Say No To

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Justin Garrison of Sidero Labs about Kubernetes, platform engineering, bare metal, AI, golden paths, and why knowing what to say no to may be one of the most important skills a platform team can develop. Justin is Field CTO at Sidero Labs, the company behind Talos Linux, and co-host of Fork Around and Find Out. We start with the evolution of Kubernetes and how managed services like EKS and GKE made Kubernetes easier to consume while also pulling teams deeper into proprietary cloud ecosystems. Justin explains why on-prem and bare metal are getting renewed attention, especially as teams look at cloud costs, data sovereignty, and the operational overhead that comes with constantly optimizing cloud environments. We also get into where Kubernetes helps and where it becomes self-inflicted pain. Justin talks about abstraction, cognitive load, and why teams tend to use familiar tools for problems they were never really designed to solve. A big part of the conversation is platform engineering and golden paths. Justin argues that every organization needs its own path, but platforms become dangerous when they try to centralize everything. He shares why one of the best decisions his team made at Disney Plus was simply saying no to stateful workloads. We also talk about what really belongs in a platform: security controls, logging, monitoring, software supply chain visibility, and cost management. Justin explains why centralization can help in those areas, but can become a bottleneck when applied too broadly. Near the end, we get into AI, security, tooling dependency, and engineering culture. Justin makes the point that people have always formed strong attachments to tools, and AI is another version of that. The challenge is knowing where AI actually helps versus where it becomes another dependency teams stop questioning. The big takeaway: good platform engineering is not about supporting everything. It is about understanding what should be standardized, what should stay flexible, and what your team should explicitly refuse to own. Highlights • Why Kubernetes has become increasingly productized • Why some teams are moving back toward on-prem and bare metal • Where cloud cost optimization starts to become its own operational burden • Why Kubernetes helps with abstraction and cognitive load • Why familiar tools often get used for the wrong workloads • What golden paths actually represent inside an organization • Why platform teams need to know what to say no to • What should and should not be centralized • How AI changes engineering workflows without changing the need for judgment • Why finding work you actually enjoy matters for avoiding burnout Links Sidero Labs: https://www.siderolabs.com Talos Linux: https://www.talos.dev Justin Garrison: https://justingarrison.com Fork Around and Find Out: https://www.forkaroundandfindout.com More episodes and show notes: https://shipitweekly.fm On Call Brief: https://oncallbrief.com LMGT Awards: https://lmgt.org

E63

24 ago 2026

41:10

GitHub Outage, PleaseFix Agentic Browser Vulnerability, AWS Certificate Manager Drops Email Validation, Cloudflare TypeScript CI Workflows, AI Observability Consolidation, and the Hidden Cost of “Simple” Platform Changes

This week on Ship It Weekly: GitHub suffers another widespread outage affecting the web interface, APIs, Actions, authentication, Copilot, and other critical developer workflows. Zenity Labs demonstrates PleaseFix attacks against agentic browsers, where malicious content can influence agents with access to authenticated sessions and privileged tools. AWS Certificate Manager is moving away from email validation, and Cloudflare is experimenting with CI pipelines defined as TypeScript instead of YAML. The bigger theme this week is dependencies and boundaries we tend to ignore until something breaks. GitHub is no longer just where the code lives. Agentic browsers are no longer just displaying webpages. Certificate renewal is not something you want depending on someone checking an inbox. And CI pipelines have become software systems of their own. Links GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage https://devops.com/github-hit-by-widespread-outage-halting-work-for-global-developers/ Zenity Labs: PleaseFix in Agentic Browsers https://zenity.io/company-overview/newsroom/company-news/zenity-labs-exposes-the-full-scope-of-pleasefix AWS Certificate Manager Ending Email Validation https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-certificate-manager-will-discontinue-email-validation-to-prove-domain-validation-for-certificates/ Certificate Expiry Is Still Taking Down Major Platforms https://tokentimer.ch/blog/tls-certificate-expiry-outages Cloudflare Turns CI Pipelines into TypeScript Workflows https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/cloudflare-ci-code-workflows/ Dynatrace Acquires Arize https://devops.com/dynatrace-acquires-arize-as-ai-agents-deepen-the-observability-challenge/ AWS Open-Sources Dogwood https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/aws-dogwood-agent-policy/ Pulumi v3.258.0 https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/releases/tag/v3.258.0 AWS Key Breach and Data-Transfer Signal https://assets.theregister.com/2026/08/13/20267/ Mario Saved the EU but Broke My System https://www.uptimelabs.io/articles/hamed-2012-outage-reflections This week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief-news/2026-W34/ Ship It Weekly https://shipitweekly.fm/

E62

21 ago 2026

17:39

Ship It Conversations: Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud on DevOps Beyond the Buzzwords, Terraform, AI, the Future of Infrastructure as Code, and Why Fundamentals Still Matter

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud about DevOps beyond the buzzwords, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, AI, and why fundamentals still matter even as the tools change. Ned is the founder of Ned in the Cloud and host of the Day 2 DevOps podcast, with more than 20 years in IT across systems administration, cloud, architecture, automation, and technical education. We start with a problem a lot of teams run into: adopting the ceremonies of DevOps without actually adopting the principles. Standups, sprints, pipelines, and tooling can make an organization look mature, but the real goal is better communication, faster feedback loops, and delivery tied to actual outcomes. We also talk about how teams decide what to prioritize next. Security, reliability, performance, FinOps, and platform work can all matter, but chasing whatever is newest does not help if the basics are still broken. A big part of the conversation is where infrastructure as code goes from here. We get into Terraform's state and scaling model, API rate limits, the Terraform/OpenTofu split, Terragrunt, and newer approaches like Swamp from System Initiative. AI is making infrastructure code cheaper to produce, but understanding the architecture behind that code is becoming more valuable. That leads into learning and career development. We talk about why networking, Linux, databases, security, cloud architecture, and troubleshooting still matter, even if an LLM writes most of the syntax. Build things, get them wrong in controlled environments, troubleshoot them, and learn what is happening underneath the abstraction. The big takeaway: tools will keep changing. Judgment, architecture, troubleshooting, and understanding the systems underneath them are much harder to automate away. Highlights • Why DevOps ceremony is not the same as DevOps principles • How teams should decide what platform work actually matters • Why basic security hygiene still matters • Where Terraform's current state model starts to hit limits • Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, and the future of infrastructure as code • How AI changes the value of writing infrastructure code • Why architecture and troubleshooting skills become more important • Why breaking things in controlled environments is one of the best ways to learn Links Ned in the Cloud: https://nedinthecloud.com Day 2 DevOps: https://day2devops.com Ned in the Cloud on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NedintheCloud/ Ned Bellavance on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance/ Swamp: https://swamp.club Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform OpenTofu: https://opentofu.org More episodes and show notes: https://shipitweekly.fm On Call Brief: https://oncallbrief.com

E61

16 ago 2026

36:12

Railway US East Outage, Stripe’s Graph-Based Database Recovery, Kata Containers Host Escape, DynamoDB Vector Search, AWS Network Firewall Proxy, Gateway API 1.6, and containerd 2.4

This week on Ship It Weekly: Railway explains how an upstream network problem turned into a much larger US East outage, including storage traffic falling back onto the management network and stale connections continuing to cause problems after routing recovered. Stripe shares how graph search and state machines helped cut database pager volume by about 30 percent. Kata Containers patches a critical guest-to-host escape, and DynamoDB adds native vector search. The bigger theme this week is what happens after the obvious failure. Fixing the route does not necessarily clear the connections created while it was broken. Automating recovery does not have to mean handing an AI agent unrestricted production access. And stronger isolation does not eliminate the components that still cross the guest-host boundary. In the lightning round: AWS brings explicit forward proxy functionality back through Network Firewall, Gateway API 1.6 moves TCPRoute and UDPRoute to stable, and containerd 2.4 enters beta with new functionality alongside breaking changes worth finding before your next runtime upgrade. Links Railway: July 2, 2026 US East Services Outage https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-july-2-2026-us-east-services-outage Stripe: How Stripe uses graph search and state machines to auto-remediate a global database fleet https://stripe.dev/blog/how-stripe-uses-graph-search-and-state-machines-to-auto-remediate-a-global-database-fleet Kata Containers: Guest-root to host-root escape via virtiofs https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/security/advisories/GHSA-2gv2-cffp-j227 Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-dynamodb-vector-search/ AWS Network Firewall forward proxy preview https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/aws-network-firewall-forward-proxy-preview/ Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/03/gateway-api-v1-6-release/ containerd 2.4 beta https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases CNCF: Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/08/10/learning-cloud-native-engineering-beyond-tutorials-through-lfx/ This week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief-news/2026-W33/ Ship It Weekly https://shipitweekly.fm/

E60

14 ago 2026

15:52

AI Agents Target GitHub, Kubernetes 1.37 Deprecations, AWS Transit Gateway Policy Routing, IAM Identity Center Multi-Region, Cloudflare Meerkat, AMOS Mac Malware, and the Risk of Half-Migrated Production Systems

This week on Ship It Weekly: AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unsanctioned actions on the real internet during UK government cyber testing, including an attempt to push malicious code into a real GitHub project. Kubernetes 1.37 starts retiring IPVS mode, pushes cgroup v1 closer to removal, and brings an SELinux volume change worth testing before upgrades. AWS Transit Gateway gets policy-based routing, and IAM Identity Center expands multi-Region support to organizations using AWS’s built-in directory. The bigger theme: access is not the same thing as authority, and availability is not just about whether your application is running. Agents need boundaries around the actions they can take. Routing policies need enough visibility to explain why traffic went where it did. And regional resilience does not help much if the people responding to the outage cannot authenticate. In the lightning round: Cloudflare’s Meerkat consensus system, AMOS macOS malware, N-able’s incomplete N-central fix, and an AWS CLI bug that disabled SSH host-key verification. Links AISI: Unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/07/31/kubernetes-v1-37-sneak-peek/ AWS Transit Gateway Policy-Based Routing https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-transit-gateway-policy-based-routing/ AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region directory support https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-iam-identity-center-extends-multi-region-support-to-identity-center-directory Cloudflare: Introducing Meerkat https://blog.cloudflare.com/meerkat-introduction/ Atomic macOS / AMOS stealer infection https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33208 N-able N-central exploitation after incomplete fix https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/n-able-says-attackers-take-over-n.html CVE-2026-18654: AWS CLI EMR SSH host-key verification https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-071-aws/ CloudFront VPC Origins half-migrated incident https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1vdovj6/the_cloudfront_vpc_origins_outage_caught_me/ This week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief-news/2026-W32/ More episodes https://shipitweekly.fm/

E59

7 ago 2026

18:19

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