Building an Agent Runtime With Open Infrastructure - Yaya Xia & Xu Wang, Ant Group

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This CNCF keynote demonstrates how Ant Group built a secure agent runtime using open-source cloud native infrastructure. The solution combines Kubernetes Agent Sandbox for orchestration and lifecycle management with Kata Containers to provide strong isolation between untrusted agent code and the host system through a dedicated guest kernel boundary. The talk covers practical implementation patterns for securely executing short-lived AI agent workloads, including efficient delivery of container images and model artifacts.