Towards Agentic SRE: Building Autonomous K8s Operations with kagent and the A2A Protocol

As Kubernetes environments scale into hyper-scale, multi-cloud complexity, traditional SRE automation scripts and predefined rules struggle to handle the "unknown unknowns." The operational mindset of 2026 is shifting—we're no longer pursuing only Automation, but moving toward Autonomy.

This session shares how to leverage kagent—a CNCF Sandbox Kubernetes-native Agentic AI framework—together with the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Protocol, enabling specialized agents to negotiate, delegate, and reach consensus like human experts, forming a truly collaborative SRE agent team on Kubernetes. We'll explore three dimensions:

1. Autonomous Collaboration Architecture: How the A2A protocol defines discovery mechanisms, communication boundaries, and conflict arbitration between agents, allowing heterogeneous frameworks to interoperate seamlessly.
2. Closing the Loop from Observation to Action: How kagent empowers agents to not just detect anomalies, but to assist engineers in reasoning, decision-making, and executing remediation across Kubernetes and cloud services—completing the full sense-to-act loop alongside human teams.
3. From Intent to Safe Execution: Translating user intent into auditable Kubernetes operations, with Human-in-the-Loop mechanisms safeguarding the boundaries of automation.