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AI Agents for Kubernetes Ops: Live incident recovery with MCP

AgentCon Helsinki 2025 · Helsinki, Finland ·

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Presenting at AgentCon Helsinki in front of a slide reading “What if incident response could be autonomous?”

I presented “AI Agents for Kubernetes Ops: Live incident recovery with MCP” at AgentCon Helsinki. The live demo ran without any hiccups, thanks to Claude Sonnet 4 for not hallucinating too much.

The demo wired an agent built with the AWS Strands Agents SDK to a set of MCP servers and let it work a real incident on an Amazon EKS cluster end to end:

  • Inject a controlled pod error
  • Prometheus fires a rule to Alertmanager
  • The agent debugs the cluster through the EKS MCP server and writes an incident summary
  • It sends the summary by email through the SNS MCP server
  • It proposes a fix through the GitHub MCP server
  • After manual approval, it applies the patched Deployment via ArgoCD

The manual approval step is the part I would not remove. The interesting question is not whether an agent can produce a patch, it is where you put the human.

Explaining large language models to the room, with a diagram of base models and fine-tuning on screen

The AgentCon Helsinki venue at Siili Solutions, with a full audience seated for the session

Thanks

Thanks to Siili Solutions for hosting, to Microsoft, and to the organisers Vesa Nopanen, Vesa Tikkanen, Anna Silvonen, Terho Antila, Vibha Deshpande and Teemu Lainiola for the opportunity.

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