Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure
by Bret Fisher
Latest episode
Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops?
Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops?
About this podcast
Where LLMs, AI Agents, and MCP tools meet DevOps and platform engineering. How can we humans use non-deterministic, often hallucinating LLMs to automate our infrastructure and help us with the job of software lifecycle management? I’m Bret Fisher, and this is the Agentic DevOps podcast. After the invention of AI Agents and the MCP standard in late 2024, I started this podcast in early '25 with a narrow topic focus… to document and advise how AI Agents, MCP tools, and large language models can be used in the real world for assisting with DevOps automation, platform engineering, and day to day systems operations… a podcast series hopefully without the hand-wavy AI hype or dreams of a pure AI workforce. I'm joined by expert guests trying to make use of crazy texting robots.
Episodes
- Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops? · 43 min · Episode 14The OpenAI Hugging Face hack. The Anthropic testing failures. Listen to the security and ops experts, not lab researchers. I walk you through the production failures that allowed…
- AI Agent Sandboxing with Nono · 1 h 4 min · Episode 13Luke Hinds, co-founder of nolabs Inc. and the nono project, joins me to dig into AI agent sandboxing with the nono CLI. It's been my go-to sandboxing tool for local agent use…
- AI-Native Engineering Culture from a CTO · 1 h 4 min · Episode 12My friend Mike Rollins joins me for a chat about what it’s like leading a software engineering team that doesn’t read code anymore. Click here to watch a video of this episode…
- Safer Agent Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows · 1 h 30 min · Episode 11A deep dive into GitHub’s Agentic Workflows feature, with Don Syme of GitHub Next & Peli de Halleux of Microsoft Research. Check out the video podcast version here…
- AI SREs, Chat With Your Infrastructure with Anyshift · 52 min · Episode 10Bret’s joined by the Anyshift.io co-founders, Roxane Fischer and Stephane Jourdan to discuss how an always-on SRE agent can help you proactively find risks and avoid incidents…
- Can AI Agents Safely Become DevOps Engineers? · 1 h 19 min · Episode 9Sam Alba, co-founder of Mendral, joins the show to discuss their new AI agents that act as “junior devops engineers” against GitHub Actions, security, failed tests, and more…
- Our Favorite Agent Setups · 1 h 3 min · Episode 8My friend Brian Christner (Docker Captain alum) and I go through our AI harnesses, agents, models, and what we’re playing with right now. OpenClaw, OpenCode, Claude Code…
- Four Months Felt Like Four Years · 59 min · Episode 7It’s been 6 months since the last episode, and it feels like everything has changed. Bret and Nirmal catch you up on the increasing pace of AI change, how it will likely affect…
- AI Hype vs. Reality. Real Stats from Laura Tacho, CTO of DX · 1 h 17 min · Episode 6Bret and Nirmal are joined by Laura Tacho, CTO at DX and long-time friend of the show, to discuss AI usage and success in teams adopting AI and Agents to generate code and…
- My Favorite AI Terminal, Prompt Injection, and More · 28 min · Episode 5In this episode, I walk though some of my favorite new AI tools and content. 😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden…
- AWS Agentic DevOps with the EKS MCP Server · 59 min · Episode 4Bret and Nirmal are joined by Rajdeep Saha from AWS to discuss AI agents and the MCP (Model Context Protocol) standard. In this episode, they explore how AI can manage…
- Agentic CI/CD with Solomon Hykes of Dagger · 1 h 16 min · Episode 3Bret and Nirmal discuss the intersection of AI agents and DevOps with Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Dagger and Docker. Solomon introduces Container Use, an open-source MCP server…
- Running AI MCP Tools on Kubernetes with kagent · 41 min · Episode 2Bret and Nirmal explore AI agents in Kubernetes with Eitan Yarmush, Senior Architect at Solo.io. Eitan explains how AI agents work through three simple components (system…
- Is AI ready for DevOps? · 26 min · Episode 1Bret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents are about to change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more. 😇…
