Kubernetes as the Control Plane for Agent Fleets
Join Eric Broda - Author of Agentic Mesh and Implementing Data Mesh from O'reilly, demonstrate how Kubernetes and CNCF projects provide the production-grade infrastructure for deploying enterprise agent systems at scale. It shows how cloud-native patterns-built on projects like Argo Workflows, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and service mesh technologies-extend to agent workloads that maintain long-lived conversations, manage evolving state, coordinate tool execution, and support human-in-the-loop oversight. The talk addresses requirements that differentiate agent systems from typical microservices: durable conversation management, explicit state lifecycles, intent-to-action observability, and audit-ready traces. Attendees see how existing CNCF projects compose into a practical foundation that meets enterprise expectations for governance and reliability.
Attendees will leave with:
- A reference architecture mapping Kubernetes and other CNCF projects to agent fleet operations
- Specific integration patterns: OpenTelemetry for agent trace correlation, Prometheus for agent health metrics, service mesh for secure agent-to-tool communication
- Practical guidance for running stateful, long-running agent interactions on Kubernetes
BENEFITS TO THE CNCF ECOSYSTEM: Positions CNCF projects such as Kubernetes as the standard infrastructure layer for the emerging enterprise agent ecosystem.
CORE MESSAGE: CNCF projects like Kubernetes can serve as the control plane for large agent fleets and ecosystems.
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