Outages And Security Threats In DevOps Tooling: Is Our Foundation Crumbling?
Platform Engineering, September 16,2025
Every castle needs a strong foundation. But lately, it feels like the foundations of our software delivery castles - the very DevOps tools we rely on every day - are starting to crack.
In just the first half of 2025, we've seen wave after wave of incidents: GitHub outages rippling across developer pipelines, Jira vulnerabilities exposing project data, GitLab service degradations frustrating teams mid-release, and supply chain compromises sneaking malicious packages into trusted registries.
These aren't minor blips. They are alarms. And for those of us in platform engineering, the alarms couldn't be louder: What happens when the very tools we depend on to build, secure, and ship software aren't themselves reliable or secure?