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AI is changing software development fast. But what does that actually mean for platform engineering teams? In this conversation, Civo's John Dietz and M R Rishi dig into what they're seeing on the ground, the 10x effect of AI on app count, what it means for platform team workloads, the debugging skills that are quietly being lost, and whether Kubernetes itself might eventually become just another abstraction.

Sandboxing your AI agent is only half the story. The other half is where your data goes when it hits your LLM provider's API. In this clip from our secure execution agents webinar, Ben Norris, founding engineer at relaxAI, explains why the sovereignty of your AI provider matters just as much as the security of your agent's environment and why relaxAI was built on a sovereignty-first principle, with inference running exclusively in the UK and no foreign data transfer.

Most platform engineering stories are told in hindsight, with the rough edges smoothed out. On June 17th, we are doing it differently. Join us for Platform Engineering Unplugged, a frank conversation with a practitioner who has navigated the real challenges of building and scaling platform engineering. What worked, what didn't, and what they would do differently. If you lead engineering teams and are thinking seriously about platform engineering, this is the session for you.

AI agents are powerful. They're also unpredictable, non-deterministic, and capable of doing things you didn't ask them to do, as the Rome Alibaba and Claude Mythos case studies make very clear. The answer isn't to avoid agentic AI. It's to run it properly. In this demo, Ben Norris, founding engineer at relaxAI, shows how to build a fully sandboxed AI agent environment from scratch, an ephemeral Civo VM provisioned via Terraform and GitHub Actions, locked down with egress policies, an unprivileged Linux user, and hard resource caps, running a Claude Code session pointed at the relaxAI API.

Thousands of configuration options. Optimisations everywhere. No clear way to track what's running where. Civo Platform Engineer M R Rishi breaks down why running AI on your own infrastructure is harder than it should be and how Konstruct changes that.

Civo Platform Engineer M R Rishi demonstrates how to go from zero to self-hosted AI in minutes using Konstruct. While most teams are stuck managing thousands of configuration values across multiple models and tools, Rishi shows how Konstruct eliminates that complexity with GPU cluster provisioning, GitOps catalog deployments, and production-ready infrastructure on day zero.

Digital sovereignty has moved from buzzword to boardroom priority. But most organisations are still asking the wrong question. Civo CEO Mark Boost cuts through the noise. Digital sovereignty isn't about marketing; it's about jurisdiction, accountability, and operational certainty. And it starts with where your data is hosted and how it's processed. Civo's UK Sovereign Cloud delivers public cloud, private cloud, and AI services, hosted and operated exclusively within the United Kingdom, under UK legal authority, with no exposure to foreign control.

The cloud shouldn't be two separate worlds. Civo delivers total cloud parity, the same features, APIs, and experience across public and private cloud. Powered by CivoStack, you can seamlessly move workloads anywhere, and with Konstruct, deploy alongside AWS, Azure, and Google. True multicloud freedom. No compromises. More control.

The hard part of deploying AI agents isn't the agent. It's the environment around it. As organisations move from AI experimentation into production, the question isn't just what agents can do; it's whether you can trust the environment they run in. Sandboxed execution gives you both the autonomy and the guardrails, keeping agents isolated, auditable, and under your control.

Digital sovereignty isn't a marketing buzzword. It's about jurisdiction, accountability, and operational certainty and it starts with where your data is hosted and how it's processed. Civo's UK sovereign cloud delivers public cloud, private cloud, and AI services, all hosted and operated exclusively within the United Kingdom under UK legal authority with no exposure to foreign control.