Name: Letting an Agent Upgrade Production Kubernetes — Without Getting Paged at 3 AM - Sanskar Agrawalla & Abhijeet Chaudhuri, Quartic.ai
Start: 2026-09-10T12:00:00+0900
End: 2026-09-10T12:25:00+0900

2026 September 10-11 | Tokyo, Japan
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Letting an Agent Upgrade Production Kubernetes — Without Getting Paged at 3 AM - Sanskar Agrawalla & Abhijeet Chaudhuri, Quartic.ai

Thursday September 10, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 JST

Hall C

Kubernetes upgrades are high-stakes, deprecation-laden, and still mostly manual — most "AI for K8s upgrades" projects stop at a feasibility check. We went further: we built an agentic system that planned and executed a real cluster upgrade end to end, and in this talk we walk through exactly how it went, with the steps, evidence, and screenshots from our actual runs.

We'll break down the architecture we shipped — a planner → executor → verifier loop, deprecated-API and CRD/Helm compatibility analysis run before anything touched the cluster, a human-in-the-loop approval gate for irreversible steps, and health-gated automatic rollback. Using captured logs and screenshots, we'll show a real multi-node upgrade as it happened, the failure cases that nearly broke it (version skew, stuck drains, webhook deadlocks), and the decisions we deliberately refused to let the model make.

You leave with an open-source blueprint for autonomous infra agents with production-grade guardrails — plus real numbers on success rate, time saved, preflight catches, and rollbacks triggered.

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Presentation Language: English
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Speakers

Sanskar Agrawalla

Site Reliability Engineer, Quartic.ai

👋 Site Reliability Engineer at Quartic.ai | Tech Enthusiast

Hey there! I'm a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for building impactful solutions. Currently, I'm working on cutting-edge projects that drive innovation. From enhancing monitoring processes to optimizing infrastructure, I'm all about crafting efficient and secure systems... Read More →

Abhijeet Chaudhuri

Site Reliability Engineer, Quartic.ai

Site Reliability Engineer who runs a production distributed system on Kubernetes — Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and a fleet of edge devices — where long-running operations are a daily reality, having experience in implementing scalable cloud-native solutions across Kubernetes, AWS... Read More →

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Thursday September 10, 2026 12:00 - 12:25 JST
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