Nirmata, the company behind Kyverno and a major force in policy-as-code innovation, has released its AI Platform Engineering Assistant, a new AI-driven solution designed to automate Kubernetes security, compliance, and workflow governance across cloud, IaC, and hybrid environments. The launch comes at a moment when enterprises are racing to modernize infrastructure but struggling to keep platform engineering resources aligned with AI-accelerated development cycles.

Industry pressures are mounting. Software creation is scaling more than 30x faster thanks to AI-assisted development, while global AI infrastructure spending is projected to exceed $350 billion. Yet nearly half of enterprises report critical skills gaps in platform engineering. Nirmata’s answer is an assistant that turns Kubernetes governance—traditionally slow, manual, and error-prone—into a continuous, AI-powered system.

Automating the Bottleneck in Modern Infrastructure

“Platform engineering has become both the bottleneck and the enabler of the AI future,” said Ritesh Patel, Vice President of Product at Nirmata. Without reliable guardrails, teams risk scaling security vulnerabilities just as fast as they scale development. Patel argues that AI-powered governance is the only path to sustainable growth, and the new assistant is designed to enforce compliance without slowing innovation.

At the core of the assistant is Kyverno, the open-source CNCF project that has become a standard for Kubernetes and IaC policy-as-code. Nirmata layers a multi-agent AI architecture on top of Kyverno to automate policy authoring, detection, and remediation—while keeping humans in the loop for verification.

What the AI Assistant Can Do

The new system is built around three intelligent agents that streamline day-to-day platform engineering work:

Copilot Interface
A conversational assistant that turns complex troubleshooting into simple prompts. Engineers can ask questions in natural language and receive detailed insights, compliance reports, and recommended actions in seconds.

Policy-as-Code Agent
This agent converts natural language rules into validated Kyverno policies for Kubernetes and IaC. It reduces syntax errors, standardizes governance across clusters, and makes policy creation accessible even to teams without deep policy-as-code expertise.

Remediation Agent
When misconfigurations or policy violations appear, this agent identifies them, generates secure fixes, and validates them. Engineers remain in control but spend far less time diagnosing and resolving issues.

Together, the agents form a continuous, intelligent governance system for Kubernetes, reducing operational noise while strengthening compliance, security, and reliability.

Built for Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Realities

The assistant supports all major Kubernetes distributions, IaC platforms, and CI/CD systems. Organizations running multi-cluster or hybrid-cloud environments can integrate it directly into existing developer workflows without restructuring pipelines.

For companies grappling with rapid AI adoption and complex infrastructure scaling, Nirmata’s platform offers a pragmatic approach: automate what slows teams down, enforce policies consistently, and free engineers to focus on higher-value innovation rather than manual security cleanup.

Nirmata’s new assistant signals a broader trend across the industry: Kubernetes governance is no longer just configuration management—it’s becoming an intelligent, autonomous layer of the modern software stack.

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