--- title: Making agents dull | daily.dev description: Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of Kubernetes' original creators, are now applying their infrastructure expertise to agentic AI through their startup... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-agents-dull-9nvnoekva twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making agents dull | daily.dev og:description: Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of Kubernetes' original creators, are now applying their infrastructure expertise to agentic AI through their startup... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-agents-dull-9nvnoekva og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9NVNOeKVa.png og:image:alt: Making agents dull og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making agents dull **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of Kubernetes' original creators, are now applying their infrastructure expertise to agentic AI through their startup Stacklok. Their core argument: enterprise AI adoption is blocked not by model quality but by accountability, governance, and observability gaps. Drawing a direct parallel to how Kubernetes tamed container chaos, they're building Kubernetes-native, self-hosted infrastructure for MCP-based AI agents — with policy, identity, isolation, and auditability built in. The thesis is that enterprises need agents to be governable, portable, and 'boring' enough to trust, and that a protocol like MCP alone isn't sufficient without a full control plane around it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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