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Agentic AI, in production, without getting burned

Before any of the AI there were thirty years of pipelines, on-call and platforms: Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, AWS, then teaching it at KodeKloud and Web Age. I still think DevOps was the best idea the industry had, and I have argued it was also a mistake, which is not a contradiction. The Unleash an Agent workshop is a GitOps cluster with ArgoCD, Kyverno, Falco and Prometheus where the assignment is to make an agent break it. Git Branch Courses and CNCF Bingo exist because I wanted them. Find me at KubeCon North America in November, or at any devopsdays with a whiteboard.

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Guardrails enforced by the AI tool are bypassable. Guardrails enforced by infrastructure are not.Read the covenants