Stacklet on Governing AI, Cloud, and Kubernetes at Scale | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026
Everybody has an AI story at KubeCon this year, but how do you actually govern the agents, models, and tokens your teams are using? In this VMblog video interview, filmed at the Stacklet booth on the show floor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sonny Shi, Head of Product at Stacklet, shares how the company is tackling that challenge.
Stacklet is the control plane for policy and governance across the cloud, Kubernetes, and AI. The platform helps organizations scale governance across the enterprise, apply custom policies, and, most importantly, take action through auto-remediation to enforce them.
In this interview, Sonny covers:
- What Stacklet is and how it delivers policy and governance across cloud, Kubernetes, and AI
- The new AI and Kubernetes features Stacklet is launching at KubeCon
- Token Custodian, Stacklet’s new product built on the same open source language as Cloud Custodian, a CNCF project
- How teams can set policies on which models they’re allowed to use
- Budget workflows that route users into an exception process instead of simply denying them when they hit a limit, all while keeping them in tools they already use, like Claude Code and desktop applications
- AI governance inside the cloud providers, including policies for fine-tuning models and using frontier models through Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex, and Azure’s AI FactoryAppl
- Application-level attribution of requests back to the exact business case, making it easier to tell the AI value story across the organization
- Why governance is not one-size-fits-all, and how selectively applying policies (such as using smaller models or batch APIs for inference where it makes sense) helps tame the “wild west” of AI adoption
Get started with Stacklet:
Visit https://stacklet.ai to book a demo.
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