AI Agents in Production with Kubernetes

Explore production AI agents and AI-assisted Kubernetes operations on 17 September 2026 at The Very Group in Liverpool. Hosted by DevOps Society and sponsored by The Very Group, this evening meetup examines how engineering teams can apply agentic AI to real platform challenges,from accelerating software delivery to investigating incidents in Amazon EKS. Expect two technical talks, live demonstrations, audience Q&As, food, drinks and plenty of time to meet fellow practitioners. ## Agentic AI at The Very Group Ryan Healey, Principal Platform Engineer at The Very Group, will present Helping engineers go faster: developing an agentic AI pattern for The Very Group. Ryan has worked across observability, production support, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and AI platforms. His session follows The Very Group’s journey in adopting agentic AI to help its software engineering teams deliver value more quickly, offering a practical perspective from a major UK digital retailer. ## From prompt to pod on AWS Sean Clerkin, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, and Richard Orrick, Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, will deliver From prompt to pod: AI-assisted Kubernetes operations on AWS. Through live demonstrations using the latest capabilities available at the time, they will explore two complementary approaches to operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments: - Interactive assistants using Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations alongside engineers - More autonomous agents supporting incident investigation - Natural-language operations for Amazon EKS using AWS MCP Server and AWS DevOps Agent - Shortening the route from symptoms to root cause and reducing mean time to resolution - Permissions, human guardrails and safe adoption within existing operational practices The session is designed to leave attendees with practical patterns for evaluating AI-assisted operations and introducing them responsibly into Kubernetes platforms. ## Who should attend?… Register for this event