AI agents are rapidly transforming industries across the board, bringing new opportunities for intelligent automation and efficiency. Companies like Salesforce with AgentForce, OpenAI with Agent Swarm, and NVIDIA with Agent Blueprints are leading the charge, but the shift is accessible to all businesses looking to innovate.

If you’re working with software, you’ve probably come across the terms “Continuous Delivery,” “Pipeline Runners,” and “Infrastructure as Code (IaC).” Or perhaps you’re already benefiting from automated deployments in your organization and want to learn more about the inner workings of these magic boxes.

If you’re using GitHub Actions as your Pipeline Runner, Bitovi has created a new GitHub action that makes publishing your Storybook to GitHub Pages a snap. It’s using a new feature in GitHub pages to help keep your repositories clean.

Continuous Integration (CI) automations are a vital part of DevOps and Cloud Engineering that simplify software delivery by helping ensure all code deployed to a hosted environment is bug-free and secure.

Pipeline Runners, and the automation pipelines they run, simplify software delivery by providing a hosted mechanism to automate running tests, building packages and artifacts, and performing deployments. In other words, Pipeline Runners run Pipelines, which are the foundation of your Automated Delivery process and your overall DevOps or Cloud Engineering approach.

DevOps is notoriously difficult, even controversial, to define.

Indeed, there are so many definitions of DevOps that if you ask 10 people, “What is DevOps”, you’re likely to get more than 10 answers (opensource.com).

DevOps is a broad concept that covers many areas of expertise, so it might have a different definition depending on a person’s background or point of view.

In this post, we’ll look at a few definitions of DevOps to see if they are actually describing different pieces of the same beast.

Let’s investigate these problems in-depth and see how DevOps automation with StackStorm helped SREs automate common tasks, minimize downtime, and sleep easier in a scalable, reliable, and fully customizable way.