Kubernetes has always relied on agents , just not the kind dominating today’s AI conversations. A controller watches the current state, compares it with a declared desired state, and takes action to close the gap. That resemblance makes AI agents and Kubernetes operators sound interchangeable. They are not. This question is no longer theoretical. Over the past 18 months, agent tooling has moved from a side project to part of the cloud-native stack. CNCF has accepted agent frameworks into its Sandbox, and Kubernetes SIG Apps has taken on Agent Sandbox as a subproject for running agent...

Source: The New Stack