Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:40am-12:00pm
- Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Track 1
- Speaker(s): Ivan Burazin
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Teams are reaching for Kubernetes to run agent sandboxes, and it's the wrong tool. Kubernetes is
built to keep things alive and hold them in a steady state. A sandbox is born, forked, and killed
before any of that machinery catches up. The mismatch compounds because the sandbox keeps gaining
requirements without shedding any. In eighteen months it went from a fast code-snippet runner, to a
stateful box for long-running agents, to ten thousand ephemeral environments that fork for RL
rollouts and die in under a second. It has to be all of those at once, a contradiction set no
orchestrator was designed to hold. The cost shows up the moment you measure it. We ran the same
50-action bug-fix trajectory across five stacks and got a 12x spread: 12.9s on the fastest, 161.5s
on the slowest. The gap isn't compute, it's lifecycle overhead per action. We name every stack and
explain the mechanism behind each number. wdyt?
Related YouTube Video
AX is the only Experience that Matters - Ivan Burazin, Daytona (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Transcript Status
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Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.
Supporting Slides
- youtube e9sLVMN76qU slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.