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# Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

You know that - A demo works on your laptop, then you deploy it elswere and it's not. Migrating a Kubernetes workloads from one platform to another is not just flipping the switch.
I created the LLM app utilizing a small quantized open model (~4B, CPU-only, serving inside the cluster) running it on a local kind cluster on my M4 MacBook. However, once moved to the AWS EKS, the pod died with 'exec format error'.
The fix exposed the next failure, and the next... a liveness probe killing the model server mid-load, ':latest' meaning different images on different clusters, kubelet garbage-collecting the multi-gigabyte model weights, a hardcoded DNS suffix, a NetworkPolicy silently doing nothing.
Let's find out what lies between "works on my laptop" and "runs anywhere", because "Build once, deploy anywhere" is a claim you must earn.

## Speaker

### [Michal Salanci](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michal-salanci)

Senior Systems Engineer at ESET Cybersecurity


## Related talks at this congress

- [No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1671-no-single-model-to) — Emmanuel Acheampong
- [It’s Alive! Taming the MLOps Franken-Stack: Write, Run, and Serve with Michelangelo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1675-it-s-alive-taming) — Eric Wang, Paul Zimmerman
- [Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1726-stop-running-mystery) — Jeroen van Erp
- [Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1684-your-evals-passed) — Tejas Pravinbhai Patel

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