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An agent that works on your laptop is borrowing three things it doesn’t own: your identity, your attention, and your judgment. It runs with your credentials and your access. It runs when you trigger it. And when it gets something wrong, you notice and tell it, which is the only evaluation it ever gets. Deploy the same skill to the cloud, unattended and pointed at production, and all three disappear at once.

Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they would switch cloud providers to take back control. Fifteen percent have actually done it. That is the headline from Civo's Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026, a survey of 1,000 UK IT leaders. The intent is loud and getting louder. The movement is almost silent. It would be easy to call that apathy. It is not. UK organizations are staying on hyperscale infrastructure they no longer fully trust for four very specific reasons. Three of them are structural.

BYOK on EKS, GKE and Kapsule now runs through the Qovery Operator: install it once with Helm on a cluster you already run, and deploy Qovery's component updates from the Console. Now in Preview, for clusters without cert-manager, ExternalDNS or Envoy Gateway. Pierre is a staff engineer on the Qovery platform team. He works on the Qovery Operator and the platform catalog that install and update Qovery on Kubernetes clusters.

Running an LLM on Kubernetes is rarely just a Deployment with vLLM in it anymore. A whole layer of frameworks and operators has grown up for it: KServe, NVIDIA Dynamo, Ray Serve, Kthena, llm-d. Each one adds its own custom resource that describes a model deployment, with routing, autoscaling and the split of a model across pods built in, and each one turns that resource into ordinary Kubernetes objects in its own way.

AI coding tools have changed how fast software ships. They haven’t changed who runs it. Every extra release, alert and incident still lands on the same SRE, Platform and DevOps teams, and 78% of technology leaders report more incidents since adopting AI-generated code. So operations teams are turning to agents too. Six in 10 enterprise leaders are piloting, deploying or evaluating automated incident response, according to Caylent.

Four in five UK teachers now use artificial intelligence for work. That is an extraordinary level of adoption for a technology that, just a few years ago, most people outside the technology industry had barely encountered. But there's another figure from the same research that I find considerably more interesting. Only 35% of teachers using AI say they're actually working fewer hours because of it.

Replay and recap of our October 20 live session: why the decision to migrate takes longer than the migration itself, the five human blockers behind it, two customer migrations, and three ways to cut decision time. Chapters, timestamps and key takeaways. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.