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We are excited to announce support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon on all Cloud 66 products, including registered servers. From this point onward, new applications are provisioned on Ubuntu 26.04 by default, on both x86_64 and ARM64. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version via the selection dropdown when scaling up via the UI, or through your manifest!

In this series, we have talked about how generative AI is shifting the landscape of software creation. In The New Software Creator, we explored how AI expands who can write code. In When Anyone Can Build Software, Deployment Governance Is What Keeps It Safe, we looked at why the deployment pipeline is the ultimate control point. Finally, in Security at Scale: What Changes When Everyone Can Deploy, we dug into the technical realities of patching, container hygiene, and identity management.

In our first series post, The New Software Creator, we mapped out a structural shift in the industry: AI is turning non-technical team members into creators of software. In our second post, When Anyone Can Build Software, Deployment Governance Is What Keeps It Safe, we argued that deployment is the single control layer that can secure this explosion of output without choking innovation.

A few weeks ago I went to quantify a trend I had already clocked: our test-writing had climbed, and kept climbing. Where a typical month once brought a handful of new tests, last month brought 436.

This is Post 2 of The Governance Gap series. Post 1, "The New Software Creator," established that the most significant shift from AI isn't developer speed - it's that the population of builders has fundamentally expanded. Something quiet happened in most engineering organizations over the last 18 months.