I used to subscribe to everything. Then my inbox became a second job, and I started unsubscribing from anything I had not opened in a month. These are the newsletters that survived.
Before writing this, I checked that every one of them is still publishing as of October 2026. That matters more than it sounds: two of the most recommended DevOps newsletters stopped a while ago, and most "best of" lists still send people to them. More on those at the end.
1. DevOps Daily
- Link: devops-daily.com/newsletters
- Cadence: weekly, every Monday
- Price: free
This is the one I open first. Each issue is a short roundup of what went up on DevOps Daily that week, and what makes it different is the type of content. The posts are hands-on: they run the thing, record the output and publish the numbers, so you get "we upgraded the same OpenTofu state and here is what broke" instead of a summary of release notes.
It also links to the site's interactive material: terminal simulators you run in the browser (Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux and more), quizzes, flashcards, interview questions and roadmaps. If you learn best by doing, this is the best fit on the list.
Who it suits: engineers from junior to senior who want practical posts they can try the same day.
One caveat: it covers the DevOps Daily site, not the whole industry. Pair it with one of the news roundups below if you also want the week's headlines.
2. SRE Weekly
- Link: sreweekly.com
- Cadence: weekly
- Price: free
Lex Neva has run this for more than 500 issues. It collects incident write-ups, postmortems and articles on reliability and on-call culture, each with a short note on why it is worth your time.
Who it suits: SREs and anyone who carries a pager.
Caveat: it is mostly about incidents and culture, with little tooling news.
3. DevOps'ish
- Link: devopsish.com
- Cadence: weekly, on Sunday
- Price: free
Chris Short's take on cloud native, open source and the industry around them. It has opinions, and that is the point: you get context, not only links.
Who it suits: people who want the week's cloud native news with commentary.
Caveat: issues are long, and a fair part is general tech news rather than DevOps.
4. TLDR DevOps
- Link: tldr.tech/devops
- Cadence: three issues a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
- Price: free
Short summaries of tools, releases and articles. You can read an issue in two minutes.
Who it suits: people who want to scan headlines quickly.
Caveat: the summaries are short, so you click through for anything that matters.
5. Learn Kubernetes Weekly
- Link: kube.today/learn-kubernetes-weekly
- Cadence: weekly, on Wednesday
- Price: free
A curated set of Kubernetes articles, tutorials and tools. It started at learnk8s.io and now lives at kube.today (the old link redirects).
Who it suits: anyone who runs or is learning Kubernetes.
Caveat: Kubernetes only.
6. Terraform Weekly
- Link: weekly.tf
- Cadence: weekly, on Wednesday
- Price: free
Anton Babenko, who maintains some of the most used Terraform AWS modules, picks the week's Terraform and OpenTofu news, modules and articles.
Who it suits: anyone who writes infrastructure as code.
Caveat: issues are very short, a one to three minute read.
7. Platform Weekly
- Link: platformweekly.com
- Cadence: weekly, on Friday
- Price: free
Essays and links on platform engineering and developer experience, from Luca Galante and the platformengineering.org community.
Who it suits: people who build internal platforms or lead a platform team.
Caveat: it is more essays than a link roundup, and it is close to one community.
8. DevOps Bulletin
- Link: devopsbulletin.com
- Cadence: weekly, on Friday
- Price: free
Mohamed Labouardy's roundup of DevOps, cloud cost and security links, plus a few open source tools each week.
Who it suits: people who want one broad weekly digest.
Caveat: lots of links, not much commentary.
9. Last Week in AWS
- Link: lastweekinaws.com/newsletter
- Cadence: weekly, on Monday
- Price: free
Corey Quinn reads the AWS announcements so you do not have to, and tells you which ones matter, with a lot of snark.
Who it suits: anyone with a real AWS bill.
Caveat: AWS only, and some weeks are skipped.
10. Console.dev
- Link: console.dev
- Cadence: weekly, on Thursday
- Price: free
Short, honest reviews of new developer tools and betas. Each tool gets a "what we like" and "what we don't like".
Who it suits: people who like trying new tools before everyone else.
Caveat: general developer tools, not only DevOps.
11. CloudSecList
- Link: cloudseclist.com
- Cadence: weekly, on Sunday
- Price: free
Marco Lancini's weekly list of cloud security research, tools and incidents, with a growing section on AI security.
Who it suits: DevOps and platform engineers who own security in the cloud.
Caveat: cloud security only, on purpose.
12. tl;dr sec
- Link: tldrsec.com
- Cadence: weekly, on Thursday
- Price: free
Clint Gibler's security newsletter, known for long, well-organized issues on application and cloud security.
Who it suits: anyone who wants to keep up with security without reading 50 blogs.
Caveat: security first, so only part of each issue is DevOps.
Bonus: Last Week in Kubernetes Development
- Link: lwkd.info
If you follow Kubernetes upstream, this summarizes the week's merges, deprecations and release dates. It is for contributors and people who plan upgrades, not for ecosystem news.
Two classics that stopped
- DevOps Weekly: the last issue is #700 from June 2024, where the author said he was taking a break. The sign-up form still works, which is why people keep recommending it.
- KubeWeekly: the CNCF ended it with issue #434 in May 2025 and moved it into a monthly CNCF newsletter.
How I keep up without drowning
Do not subscribe to all twelve. Pick three:
- One that teaches you something hands-on: DevOps Daily.
- One for your main stack: Learn Kubernetes Weekly, Terraform Weekly or Last Week in AWS.
- One for news or security: DevOps'ish or TLDR DevOps for news, CloudSecList or tl;dr sec for security.
That is about 30 minutes of reading a week, and you will not miss much that matters.
Which newsletter did I miss? Tell me in the comments.
Top comments (1)
Newsletter angle worth adding for the CI-heavy ones: GhostAction (Socket, Oct 7+) = hijacked maintainer accounts injecting .github/workflows/security-audit.yml, harvesting full git history, cleartext POST to 193.32.204.199. Every newsletter that skips workflow-integrity is giving readers a blind spot. Free 5-step self-audit brief on request.
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