KubeCon roundup day 2: nov. 10, 2026. Solo.io brings Agent Substrate to enterprise production. Solo.io has announced that its Agent Substrate and kagent tools are now generally available. Agent Substrate establishes a new infrastructure layer for agentic runtimes, combining serverless scale, sandbox isolation, and governed connectivity. kagent adds the developer experience for building and managing agents, tools, and skills. Agents are the next major workload for Kubernetes. To support them, the platform must evolve to handle the scale of individual agent sessions, each carrying its own state and context across multiple turns. At tens of millions of sessions, a dedicated pod for each one ties up resources while agents wait on models, tools, or human input. Agent Substrate introduces an execution model that suspends idle sessions and resumes them on demand, allowing enterprises to scale on the Kubernetes infrastructure they already operate. "Agent Substrate is trying to do for agentic workloads what Kubernetes did for traditional deployments - to make the orchestration of them a non-issue. This layer is necessary but it's not interesting for most agentic apps. Our goal is to make the problem go away, so people can focus on more interesting problems. Kubernetes itself is the perfect platform to build up from - it's everywhere and it's very well understood. When it comes to critical infrastructure, open always wins," said Tim Hockin, Distinguished Software Engineer Kubernetes and GKE, Google. Solo's enterprise distributions of Agent Substrate and kagent deliver a supported agent runtime with agentgateway as the actor's gateway, enforcing identity and policy controls on ingress and egress. As a co-maintainer of the Agent Substrate project with Google, Solo is leading the development of the open-source foundation for agentic workloads. The community's release of Agent Substrate 1.0 marks a significant milestone in agentic infrastructure, building on six months of momentum with more than 6,000 GitHub stars and over 100 contributors from more than 40 organizations. To help the community and customers plan their production rollouts, Solo has distilled its experience with performance and scale testing for GA into a calculator available on the kagent project site. The tool helps users size their environments and set service-level objectives for running Agent Substrate at scale. "The next generation of applications will be agents. The infrastructure they need is being defined right now, and the choices we make will shape how enterprises run for years to come. Agent Substrate and the actor model are the foundation for that shift. We're building for a world where agents carry out work across every part of an organization, with isolation and control built into the infrastructure from the start. Our customers are already showing what that future looks like in production," said Idit Levine, founder and CEO of Solo.io. Portworx unveils advanced AI and VM capabilities on Kubernetes. Portworx by Everpure unveiled new capabilities designed to address data challenges for running AI, virtual machines and containerized workloads running on Kubernetes. These updates include pre-staged volumes for AI/ML workloads, the general availability of Kube Datastore (KDS) for VMs on Kubernetes, and expanded observability through the operations center. More and more enterprises are looking to run agentic AI, VMs, and containerized workloads on a unified Kubernetes platform. The Portworx innovations benefit data infrastructure and platform engineering teams by eliminating data friction, enabling AI workloads to access training data sets faster, and offering a predictable path to modernize VMs on Kubernetes without compromising on performance. Alongside these product updates, Everpure has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Container Data and Infrastructure Management Software. According to the IDC MarketScape, "Everpure's Portworx offering is a good fit for enterprises running mission-critical VMs, containerized applications, or AI workloads on Kubernetes across multiple distributions or mixed storage that want integrated backup and Disaster Recovery. Everpure is actively developing virtualization platform feature parity into Portworx. Organizations interested in a seamless transition from VMs to containers should consider Portworx." Greg Muscarella, General Manager, Portworx at Everpure, said: "Enterprises need to build and scale new applications while modernizing existing ones without compromising availability or adding operational complexity. Portworx gives teams a consistent approach to running containers and VMs on Kubernetes and managing their data across public clouds and on-premises infrastructure. Our latest innovations, including Kube Datastore, help customers simplify storage management, recover faster from infrastructure failures, and use storage more efficiently. We believe our recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape reflects our commitment to helping customers run mission-critical applications with confidence, from established enterprise workloads to new cloud-native services." Mirantis announces Agent Platform that strengthens human oversight of production AI agents. Mirantis today announced the general availability of Mirantis Agent Platform that gives organizations a self-hosted, governed environment for running AI agents in production on Kubernetes. Mirantis is pairing the Agent Platform with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), in which senior Mirantis engineers work directly with client teams to design, integrate, and operationalize custom agents. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, Mirantis Agent Platform helps platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) and IT operations teams control agent access, enforce spending limits and track agent actions while maintaining human approval over operational fixes. "Enterprise AI adoption is losing momentum not because models lack intelligence, but because organizations lack governance and execution support," said Ronen Kofman, vice president of product management at Mirantis. "By combining sandboxed execution and real-time human oversight in the Mirantis Agent Platform with Mirantis Forward Deployed Engineering, we're providing the guardrails that organizations need to run AI agents safely in production." Among the key capabilities of the Agent Platform are: * Policy-based governance and sandboxed isolation - Define what each agent can access and run each one in an isolated sandbox to limit unauthorized or unintended activity. * Configurable spend caps - Set spending limits at the organization, project and agent levels to control financial exposure. * Full audit trails - Record every agent action to support operational reviews, incident investigations and compliance. * One-click cut network access - Cut off network access for all agents at once when administrators need to intervene. * Human-approved remediation - Require a person to approve proposed fixes before agents apply them. Mirantis Agent Platform supports Mirantis's built-in Prism agent and third-party agents customers already use. For infrastructure operations, it proactively detects production issues, diagnoses root causes and proposes fixes. Once a person approves a proposed fix, the agent applies it, helping teams move from investigation to remediation while retaining control over changes. Mirantis Agent Platform is generally available. Attendees can visit Mirantis at Booth 232 during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, or schedule a one-to-one demo.

Solo.io has made enterprise releases of Agent Substrate and kagent generally available. Agent Substrate is a new infrastructure layer for running AI agents, combining serverless scale, sandbox isolation, and governed connectivity. kagent handles building and managing agents, tools, and skills. Instead of keeping a dedicated pod for every agent session, Agent Substrate suspends idle sessions and resumes them on demand. Enterprises can scale on the Kubernetes infrastructure they already run. OutSystems and Swissquote are launch customers running it in production. Swissquote uses kagent for financial-crime investigation agents. Solo co-maintains the open-source Agent Substrate project with Google. Version 1.0 has more than 6,000 GitHub stars and over 100 contributors from more than 40 organisations.