Build AI Agents in Kubernetes
Learn how to design and deploy AI agents directly in Kubernetes in this live, hands-on workshop with Lin Sun and Christian Posta. You'll work through the foundational building blocks of agentic systems—agents, tool integrations (MCP), and gateways—while gaining a practical understanding of how these components fit together in real environments. This session focuses on getting you hands-on with the core primitives so you can confidently start building and iterating on your own agent-based systems.
In this workshop, you will:
- Deploy and explore AI agents in Kubernetes using kagent
- Inspect and understand agent configuration, including models, YAML, and tool connections
- Learn the challenges of running MCP services in Kubernetes and simplify them with kmcp
- Install and configure agentgateway to expose and route agent traffic
- Work across both local and Kubernetes environments using real configurations
- Build and run a functional agent setup that forms the foundation for more advanced systems
By the end, you'll have a working foundation for running AI agents in Kubernetes—and a clear path to expanding it into more complete, production-ready systems.
Learn how to design and deploy AI agents directly in Kubernetes in this live, hands-on workshop with Lin Sun and Christian Posta. You'll work through the foundational building blocks of agentic systems—agents, tool integrations (MCP), and gateways—while gaining a practical understanding of how these components fit together in real environments. This session focuses on getting you hands-on with the core primitives so you can confidently start building and iterating on your own agent-based systems.
In this workshop, you will:
- Deploy and explore AI agents in Kubernetes using kagent
- Inspect and understand agent configuration, including models, YAML, and tool connections
- Learn the challenges of running MCP services in Kubernetes and simplify them with kmcp
- Install and configure agentgateway to expose and route agent traffic
- Work across both local and Kubernetes environments using real configurations
- Build and run a functional agent setup that forms the foundation for more advanced systems
By the end, you'll have a working foundation for running AI agents in Kubernetes—and a clear path to expanding it into more complete, production-ready systems.
Speakers
Lin Sun
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, contributing full-time to the open-source community. She serves on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), is a CNCF Ambassador, and is a maintainer for Istio, kgateway, and kagent. An international speaker at tech conferences, Lin frequently blogs about gateways, service meshes, cloud-native connectivity, AI agents, and MCP. She is the author of "Sidecar-less Istio Explained", is currently writing "AI Agents in Kubernetes", and holds more than 200 patents.
Christian Posta
Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Global Field CTO at Solo.io supporting customers and end users in their adoption of cloud-native technologies. He is an author for Manning and O’Reilly publications, open source contributor, blogger and sought after speaker on Envoy Proxy and Kubernetes technologies. Prior to Solo.io, Chrisitian was a Chief Architect at Red Hat, FuseSource and held engineering positions at organizations like Wells Fargo, Apollo Group, Intel.
