Admission Control for AI: Governing AI Agents and Tools with Kyverno - June 10, 2026 Meetup

Admission Controllers secure Kubernetes by ensuring only "known-good" configurations reach our clusters. However, as we integrate AI Agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), we face the new challenge of applying similar rigor to non-deterministic AI actions. When an AI agent accesses a database or calls a tool, its intent must be validated against corporate policies, privacy standards, and least-privilege principles to ensure security and compliance. In this session, Jim Bugwadia and Devi Sivakumar explore bringing Cloud Native policy management to Generative AI using kyverno-authz. We will demonstrate how to intercept agentic intentions, evaluate them against declarative policies, and move beyond static validation to real-time semantic authorization. Attendees will see live demonstrations of how to audit behavior and reject unsafe AI actions in real-time, maintaining the same standards of safety used for privileged containers in Kubernetes.