Production AI Agents in Kubernetes: A 7-Control Checklist for Platform Teams

📝 If you've ever watched an AI agent invent a service that doesn't exist or invent an alert it then "handles," this checklist is for you. A vendor-neutral, engineer-focused guide to identity, authorization, audit, rate limits, rollback, and deterministic fallbacks — built on patterns proven in production Kubernetes. Figure 1. The seven control-layer guardrails standing between an AI agent and production infrastructure. Why I wrote this. I started drafting this checklist after watching...