AI has become influential in shaping mainstream consciousness through conversation, image generation, and content creation. As its reach is expanded to every corner of society and technology, it is poised to influence the cloud-native landscape in significant ways.

But what will this mean for the future of cloud-native? How can we leverage AI technologies like inference APIs, unsupervised learning, and synthesizing human behaviours to improve observability and issue triage in the cloud-native space?

In this talk, we will dive into K8sGPT, a CNCF sandbox candidate project that codifies DevOps knowledge using remote and local AI. We'll explore how K8sGPT can enhance observability and issue triage in cloud-native environments, as well as the potential of task-specific models and AI-driven infrastructure to lower barriers to entry for newcomers to cloud-native.

Throughout there will be continued reflection on how we can utilise this powerful new tooling safely and for everyone.