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# No Keys for the Robot: GitOps as the Control Plane for Autonomous Agents


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 14:10–14:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100095-no-keys-for-the-robot-gitops-as-the-control-plane-for-autonomous-agents)

## Description

As CloudOps evolves from automated scripts to autonomous AI agents, the fear of "runaway automation" often blocks adoption. How can we trust an AI to manage production? The answer lies in the safety net of GitOps. This session proposes a "Zero Trust" Enterprise architecture where Agents are restricted to Read-Only access of the live infrastructure, forcing all operational changes through git.

We will explore how this constraint transforms the AI from a potential liability into a manageable asset. By channeling agent decisions through GitOps pipelines, we inherit "Time Machine" capabilities: granular change tracking for every AI decision, instant rollbacks if an optimization fails, and a permanent audit trail. We will demonstrate how control plane standardizes the infrastructure API, allowing agents to monitor and react to system needs, while GitOps ensures that human teams retain total control with a simple git revert

## Speaker

### [Jaroslaw Gajewski](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jaroslaw-gajewski)

Lead Technical Cloud Architect at Atos


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- [The day the chatbot asked for sudo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1027-the-day-the-chatbot) — Alex Olivier
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