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Picture the newest hire on your team. They start Monday. They ship at 3 AM, at a pace reviews can't keep up with, and they build with whatever they find, without checking what's underneath. That's an AI agent. And most teams aren't ready for it. This post covers what it takes to build a foundation your team can actually trust, and the execution boundary that keeps agents safe. You can also see it live at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San José! What will you have ready for them to build on? Read more:

AI amplifies whatever you're already doing. That's great if your fundamentals are strong. Less so if they're not. In this Ship Happens episode, Per Ploug Krogslund and Eric Bowman, CTO of King Games, get into why the best practices around learning organizations, cognitive bias, and team flow matter more now than they ever have. And, what engineering leaders need to do differently as a result. Watch here → https://lnkd.in/gZFvVbmS 

We appreciate this take on our recent executive hires from Paul Nashawaty of ECI Research: “Leadership appointments are often incremental. This one is directional. Docker is not hiring for steady-state container runtime growth; it is explicitly building a CPO and CFO pairing around agentic AI deployment at enterprise scale.” Read his full analysis here: https://bit.ly/4gAryIz

No developer would leave their laptop unlocked and walk away. But that's close to what most teams do when they hand an agent credentials, tools, and live access to environments with no guardrails. Traditional governance controls weren’t designed for a world where agents have your permissions, but act at machine speed. Srini Sekaran and Eli Aleyner make the case for what governance has to look like instead. We’re calling it the 3Cs of agent governance: Contain, Curate, Control. This is also what we'll be talking through at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America (September 23 - 25). Join us in San Jose to continue the conversation (ticket link in the comments)! Read more here:

Announcing another speaker for WeAreDevelopers North America (co-hosted by Docker): Anna Chernyshova, Sr. Solutions Engineer at Docker! If you're looking to level up your Testcontainers workflow - Anna's got you covered. She'll show you how to use Testcontainers to run real dependencies locally, spin up agents with real tools and services, and validate actual interactions instead of guessing. Catch this one if making AI systems testable and reliable is on your list. September 23-25 in San Jose. Build what's /next. Session details: https://bit.ly/4gDAPQj

Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck for AI-driven development. Safety is. Agents naturally ask for more access as they work, and each step seems reasonable until the agent can touch everything. In his recent talk at the AI Engineer World's Fair, Docker CTO Tushar Jain walks through Docker's approach to agent safety: portable containment, scoped capabilities, and access that's tied to what the task actually needs. Watch Tushar’s full talk here: https://bit.ly/4iyAyAz

The AI security conversation is maturing fast, and this week's press coverage shows it. TechTarget, CI/CD News, Prediction Guard, and TLDR DevOps each tackled a different piece of the puzzle this week: the supply chain, the developer environment, the model layer, and the virtualization stack. On their own, each provides a solid topic dive, and together, they reinforce where the industry is going. Links to each in the comments.

“An agent that breaks your laptop is annoying, while an agent that breaks production comes with a postmortem.” Docker and Pulumi are running a joint workshop September 16 on how to let a coding agent near your infrastructure, safely. The demo uses Pulumi Neo to write and run real infrastructure code in your cloud, all inside a Docker Sandbox that keeps whatever the agent installs or breaks from ever leaving its sealed workspace. You'll see how a plain-English request can turn into running infrastructure in a real cloud account, with short-lived credentials and no static API keys in sight. Register here → https://bit.ly/4y2hQWz

Last day for the Agent Hall of Shame! Contest closes TONIGHT at midnight, Pacific Time! We've seen some things. If your agent can top them, this is your last chance to tell us. Best story wins a free ticket to WeAreDevelopers North America (September 23-25, San Jose): where the dev community comes together to build what's /next. Fill out the form now. https://bit.ly/4zflaPH