KCDKOCHI26 - T03-S04 - Platform Patterns for AI on K8s: Admission, Isolation & Observability

🚀 Platform Patterns for AI on K8s: Admission, Isolation & Observability That Work 🎤 Speaker: Saurabh Mishra DevOps Engineer, Optum Global 📍 Kubernetes Community Day Kochi 2026 Running AI and machine learning workloads on Kubernetes introduces a unique set of challenges, from managing expensive GPU resource contention to enforcing complex security boundaries and gaining visibility into opaque model performance. In this technical session, Saurabh Mishra dives into proven platform engineering patterns for successfully operating AI workloads on Kubernetes at enterprise scale. Discover how to implement robust admission controllers to intelligently govern compute resources, design secure workload isolation strategies, and build comprehensive observability pipelines tailored specifically for AI/ML traffic. This talk provides platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, and SREs with practical, battle-tested blueprints for transforming standard Kubernetes clusters into resilient, secure, and high-performance AI platforms. About the Speaker Saurabh Mishra is a DevOps Engineer at Optum Global, specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platform engineering, and MLOps. With extensive experience managing large-scale, highly regulated enterprise systems, Saurabh is passionate about building secure, observable, and efficient internal developer platforms that empower data science and engineering teams to deploy models with confidence. Join CNCG Kochi CNCGKOCHI is the official Cloud Native Community Group (CNCG) Kochi chapter. We are a vendor-neutral community focused on Cloud Native technologies, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, AI Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Open Source, and modern infrastructure practices. Join the community: https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/kochi 👍 Like, Share and Subscribe for more Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Platform Engineering, Open Source, and modern infrastructure content. #kubernetes #KCDKochi #cloudnative #PlatformEngineering #opensource #AIonK8s #MLOps #devops #sre #observability #cncf #KubernetesCommunity #KochiTech #KCD2026