#45 - The Cloud Native Pulse: AI Agents, Platform Engineering, and the Future of Kubernetes with Abdel Sghiouar

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About this Episode
Abdel Sghiouar, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Google and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chair, joins Kasper Borg Nissen to discuss what’s changing across the cloud-native ecosystem.
They explore why AI and agentic workloads are becoming a dominant theme in Kubernetes, why platform engineering teams are under more pressure than ever, and why the industry is still inventing best practices in real time.
Abdel also shares lessons from his career in developer advocacy and the basic formula for a great conference talk.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Kubernetes for agentic apps: A platform engineering perspective – https://platformengineering.org/blog/kubernetes-for-agentic-apps-a-platform-engineering-perspective
The Kubernetes Podcast: https://kubernetespodcast.com/
More from Abdel: https://linktr.ee/boredabdel



