Kagenti

Kagenti is an incubation project building a Kubernetes-based control plane for AI agents. It works with any agent framework and provides modular components that can be deployed independently or as a complete platform, streamlining production deployments for AI Engineers.

Kagenti is under active development and open to new ideas.

Open Source Apache Licensed.

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Components

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Agent Sandbox

Agent Sandbox enables skills-driven coding agents to run in Kubernetes with defense-in-depth isolation. It combines kernel-level sandboxing (Landlock LSM + seccomp-BPF), network filtering, credential isolation via AuthBridge, and SPIFFE/SPIRE identity to provide secure execution for autonomous and interactive agent workflows. Supporting any LLM via litellm, it reuses the same CLAUDE.md and skills from local development while ensuring untrusted code cannot compromise the system.

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Benchmarking

Performance benchmarking and testing capabilities for AI agents deployed on Kagenti. Provides comprehensive metrics for response times, throughput, resource utilization, load testing, and agent comparison. Enables teams to evaluate agent output quality, track token usage, and optimize operational costs across different implementations and configurations.

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Observability

OpenTelemetry instrumentation following GenAI semantic conventions for comprehensive agent observability. Integrates with MLflow for experiment tracking and Phoenix for LLM debugging, providing detailed traces of agent invocations, LLM calls, tool executions, and token usage. Enables teams to monitor, debug, and optimize agent performance in production with distributed tracing and semantic attributes.

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Kagenti Lifecycle Operators

Kagenti Lifecycle Operators automate the deployment and management of AI agents and MCP tools on Kubernetes. The Agent Operator handles agents from container images or source code, while the MCP Tool Operator manages tools via Tool Hive. This streamlines the path from development to production with fast, flexible, and reliable automation.

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MCP Gateway

MCP Gateway is an Envoy-based gateway for connecting agents to tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It provides centralized routing for multiple MCP servers and “virtual MCP servers” that group tools from different sources, enabling precise control over agent tool access and policy enforcement. A Kubernetes-native control plane adds declarative management via custom CRDs, automatic backend discovery through HTTPRoute integration, and Kuadrant support for authorization and token exchange policies.

Security & Safety Plugins: The plugins-adapter works with MCP Gateway to provide request/response filtering, content moderation, and policy enforcement for secure AI agent interactions.

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Agent Identity & Discoverability

Zero-trust identity architecture combining SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity, OAuth2 token exchange, and Keycloak identity management. Provides secure, scalable, and dynamic authentication for cloud-native AI agents with machine identity management, secure delegation through token exchange, and continuous verification. Replaces static credentials with SPIRE-issued JWTs and ensures least-privilege access across the platform.

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Security & Access Control

Identity and Authorization Bridge includes sidecars that provide identity-based, delegated access control for agents to tools, transparent to agent code. They implement agent identity using SPIFFE/SPIRE, dynamic OAuth client registration, token exchange with fine-grained scoping, and secret retrieval from vault for external tool integration. Together they ensure zero-trust security for agents and allow users to precisely control what agents can do on their behalf.

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Blogs

We write about cutting edge of cloud native, AI, and security.

Recent articles:

  • buildIntroducing MCP-Gateway: A Unified Front Door for Your MCP Servers
  • 123Hands-On Introduction to Agentic AI Concepts with Kagenti
  • filter_dramaToward a Cloud-Native Platform for AI Agents
  • lockSecurity in and around MCP
  • accessibilityIdentity in Agentic Platforms: Enabling Secure, Least-Privilege Access
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Demos

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Contact

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