Deployment Unit

Rethinking AI agents on Kubernetes as efficient worker pods

Most teams assume each AI agent deserves its own Pod, but kagent challenges that instinct. Agents are bursty, short-lived, and often wait on human approval, making one Pod per agent a wasteful use of cluster resources. Instead, agent-substrate introduces a control plane that schedules logical Actors onto long-lived worker Pods. It's a smarter deployment unit, one that matches how agents actually behave. For more on scaling concurrent workloads, our piece on Modal's sandbox rebuild pairs well with this perspective.