white duck News March 2026

🎂 10 Years of SLASCONE

We are proud to celebrate 10 years of innovation with SLASCONE, our sister company! From the first ideas to an established Azure-based licensing platform for software vendors (ISVs), the product has evolved into a reliable engine for modern software and IoT business models. Together with our customers and partners, we have achieved important milestones – and that is exactly what motivates us to continue setting new standards in software licensing.

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🤝 Everything from One Source: Azure, Development, Operations

Three partners for Azure subscriptions, development, and operations? That can work – but requires coordination, knowledge transfer, and clear responsibilities. In practice, this often creates friction.

Our approach: “We built it, we run it.” The same engineers who developed your solution also handle operations. No knowledge transfer needed, one point of contact, one responsibility. In the blog post, you will learn why this is particularly relevant for CTOs and IT managers in mid-sized companies.

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🎬 Webinar Series: The Future of Software Development

Agentic AI and Agentic DevOps are becoming strategic levers for speed, quality, and competitiveness. In our three-part webinar series, we show how companies can accelerate their software development with AI agents, reorganize teams, and sustainably reduce their time-to-market.

In focus: governance, security, spec-driven development, and cloud-native architectures on Azure. Practical use cases, proven architectures, and concrete recommendations for 2026.

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🔒 Webinar Series: Secure Agentic AI

Together with our partner ADN, we hosted a three-part webinar series on the security of agentic AI systems. All webinars have already taken place and are available as recordings:

🎥 When AI Becomes a Gateway: Live Hijack of an Agentic AI System

🎥 DevSecOps for AI-Native Systems: From Code to Operations

🎥 Protect Your Agentic AI System

From prompt injection to tool abuse to RAG poisoning: we show new attack vectors and how to secure your AI systems with robust guardrails.

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🐝 Flock v0.5.400: OpenClaw Integration for Enterprise Agentic AI

Our open-source AI agent framework Flock supports OpenClaw as a first-class pipeline participant starting with version 0.5.400. OpenClaw – with over 337,000 GitHub stars, one of the fastest-growing open-source projects – brings AI agents that truly act: send emails, manage calendars, edit files, research on the web.

What OpenClaw lacked was enterprise orchestration. That is exactly what Flock delivers: typed data flows, parallel execution, security boundaries between tenants, and end-to-end observability. What this enables: autonomous code reviews with actual test execution, parallel research with intelligent synthesis, or content pipelines with live data enrichment.

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Token Control 5.0: More Flexibility, More Control, More Clarity

AI governance should support existing processes, not complicate them. That is exactly where Token Control 5.0 comes in: with more transparency for teams and precise control options for organizations.

The new version helps keep AI usage in view across teams, centrally manage deployments and models, and efficiently implement organizational rules such as budgets, approvals, and traceability.

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💰 Token Control: Control AI Costs Before They Occur

AI workloads generate costs differently than traditional cloud resources: agents trigger multiple model calls in seconds, token consumption occurs in bursts, new prompts cause budget spikes in minutes. Azure Cost Management delivers this data only with an 8 to 72-hour delay – too late for operational control.

Token Control closes this gap. Every model call is captured directly in the request flow and assigned in a structured manner. Budgets and policies take effect where usage occurs – not in downstream reporting. This transforms AI governance from a reactive reporting topic into an active component of your platform.

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🎓 “Stelli”: From Student Project to Go-Live

“Stelli”, the AI chatbot on the website of the Digital Startup Center Stellwerk18 in Rosenheim, answers questions about startups, offerings, and events – quickly and context-based.

What began as a proof of concept at the 2025 project fair of TH Rosenheim is now a production solution. Students implemented the project, supported by our architecture guidance, code reviews, and security and operations know-how – including AI governance with Token Control.

A strong example of regional cooperation between Rosenheim Technical University, Stellwerk18 with the real application scenario, and white duck as technology and AI partner.

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Cloud Native Summit Munich 2026

June 29-30, 2026, smartvillage Bogenhausen, Munich – The Cloud Native Summit Munich is already in its fifth year! Two days of technical talks, hands-on workshops, and networking with the cloud-native and open-source community. In focus: AI engineering, cloud native, Kubernetes, observability, and platform engineering.

The event is organized by the community for the community – including us at white duck. Whether you are a developer, platform engineer, AI engineer, or IT professional: secure your ticket now!

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🔐 Terraform Scaffolding for Azure – Now Secretless with OIDC

Secrets in CI/CD pipelines are a persistent issue: they must be rotated, can be leaked, and are a popular attack vector. With the update of our open-source Terraform scaffolding for Azure, that is a thing of the past.

OIDC is now the default. No client secret in Key Vault, no pipeline variables, nothing that can be rotated or leaked. GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps authenticate directly with Azure via short-lived tokens. The repository provides a setup script that provisions everything needed in five minutes, including migration instructions for existing setups.

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