The fundamental building block of modern infrastructure deployments is a strong basis of codification.

In this workshop, Kerim and Patrick will take you from Zero to Managed with HashiCorp Terraform and the GitHub Provider.

Attendees can expect to learn:

• What Infrastructure as Code is
• How to manage GitHub with Terraform
• How to safely inject credentials into the process

Come discover how to code a Game Master that will orchestrate multiple AI agents, each specialized in a particular task.

We'll explore concepts like agent tools, the MCP, A2A, and RAG to create agents and/or MCP servers that roll dice, verify DnD rules, and generate the story as it unfolds.

Whether you're a role-playing game fan or not, there will be things to learn during this session :)

Discover how lies, trust, and teamwork in social deduction games translate to stronger agile teams. Hands-on gameplay with practical takeaways. This is a perfect fit for teams following the agile mindset.

After last year's success, we will continue with a more refined concept!

For years, the database world felt predictable. We spoke in stored procedures, closely guarded our indexes, agonized over transaction logs, and meticulously budgeted our compute resources around physical or provisioned servers. If you are coming from the Microsoft SQL Server ecosystem, you know the drill: scaling up means bigger hardware, and scaling out means a headache.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming a key building block for agentic software. In this workshop, Rainer Stropek explains how MCP works behind the scenes, with a clear focus on operational aspects. Designed for DevOps specialists, the session covers protocols, authentication, and other essentials for running secure and production-ready MCP servers.

We will teach attendees the basics of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a fun gamified way that combines learning DevOps fundamentals with making "line go up". Attendees will gain hands-on expertise with both AWS and HashiCorp Terraform in a free, safe, and sand-boxed environment.

This workshop explores how to empower engineering teams through secure, standardized self-services built on repository templates and reusable workflows. Learn how baseline rulesets enable automatic compliance, while streamlined user and secret management ensure secure operations at scale. We’ll dive into practical build, deployment, and security workflows, as well as modern release strategies.

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to building AI-enhanced applications using a
combination of large language models, image processing, model deployment, and retrieval-augmented
generation (RAG) on Red Hat OpenShift AI.

Opening of the DevOpsDays Graz 2026 by the organizer team with an inspiring opening that sets the tone for collaboration, innovation, and learning. This session brings together practitioners, thought leaders, and curious minds to explore the evolving DevOps landscape - highlighting key themes, community spirit, and what to expect from the days ahead.

AI agents are changing how software gets built, reviewed, secured, and shipped. In this session, we’ll explore what DevOps looks like when agents join the delivery loop, from planning and coding to review, security, and deployment. This is not about replacing developers. It is about helping teams ship with more speed, confidence, and impact

Viele Entwickler:innen suchen nach KI-Coding-Lösungen jenseits der großen US-LLMs. In dieser Session zeigt Rainer Stropek, wie sich mit dem europäischen Devstral-Modell von Mistral, Kilo Code und Ollama eine lokale KI-Lösung für VS Code aufbauen lässt.

Voluntold or not, tech leadership is nothing like what you thought. A people lead & a technical lead pull back the curtain on their shared leadership model — navigating emotions, blind spots, and awkward moments.
Come for the real talk. Stay for the laughs. Leave with something useful.

Breaking into DevOps often means bouncing between perfect tutorials and messy production. The gap? Tools taught in isolation, leaving juniors to figure out connections in practice. This talk explores how to bridge that gap by making connections visible, creating safe spaces to learn and focusing on the "why," not just the "how," so teams can onboard better and juniors can grow without overwhelm.

The OpenTelemetry Demo has evolved into a full CNCF observability playground. This talk shares lessons from scaling it across 20+ services, multiple signals, and tools like Envoy, Prometheus, OpenFeature, Valkey, Weaver, and shows how to use it to explore, validate, and understand real-world observability systems.

Europe has spent years debating its digital destiny. But talk is cheap, and hyperscaler invoices are not. As the AI infrastructure arms race accelerates, can European alternatives keep pace? Or is it even possible to ship a production-ready, cloud-native application today entirely on European infrastructure?

I'll explore what it takes to build a fully local AI agent for Terraform code generation, making use of your own private module library, style guides and best practices. I'll also cover realistic model choices for developer hardware and cover how to avoid accidentally turning your laptop into a space heater mid-demo.

AI promises innovation, automation, and transformation — but running it on-premises is often a very different story. Behind every successful deployment are countless challenges:
infrastructure limitations, security requirements, integration headaches, operational complexity,
and the constant battle between expectations and reality.

Every team starts with a CI pipeline — we turned ours into a full Developer Experience platform. In three pillars, I show how GitHub Workflows transformed our daily work: automated task management, CI/CD with preview environments across multiple environments, and AI-powered code reviews combined with deterministic code generation from OpenAPI specs and Figma tokens.

Everyone talks about agents running everything end‑to‑end. In reality, delivering company‑specific agents in enterprise environments is hard—especially under Austrian regulatory and data constraints, where weak DevOps just breaks faster.

Terraform modules are the backbone of scalable IaC—but writing them can still feel like copy-paste archaeology. This talk explores a new workflow: building Terraform modules with agents as collaborative copilots. We’ll cover patterns, guardrails, and real-world lessons to ship reusable, production-ready modules faster—without sacrificing control.

Join this engaging panel discussion where industry experts and practitioners share their real-world experiences with DevOps in action. From culture and collaboration to automation and security, the panel explores current challenges, emerging trends, and lessons learned across diverse organizations.

In this session, we are going to demonstrate how to secure modern DevOps pipelines using Microsoft security technologies — from code to cloud — through a practical live demonstration and real-world scenarios.

This is about complex regulatory environment in Europe, pointing to GDPR, NIS2, and the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act as major examples. I'll emphasize how difficult it is for organizations to navigate these overlapping rules, especially when each EU member state interprets them differently.

Close DevOpsDays Graz 2026 with a heartfelt and energetic final session led by the organizing team. Reflecting on the highlights, key learnings, and unforgettable moments of the conference, this closing brings the community together one last time.