Production AI Agents in Kubernetes: A 7-Control Checklist for Platform Teams

📝 Originally published on opscart.com . Cross-posted here for the dev.to community. A vendor-neutral, engineer-focused guide to identity, authorization, audit, rate limits, rollback, and deterministic fallbacks — built on patterns proven in production Kubernetes. Figure 1. The seven control-layer guardrails standing between an AI agent and production infrastructure. Why I wrote this. I started drafting this checklist after watching one of our production Kubernetes proof-of-concepts go sideways