Deploying with Kubernetes

Agent Mesh is deployed on Kubernetes using a Helm chart. Three deployment paths are available depending on your use case.

Path	Use case	External dependencies
Kubernetes Quick Start	Evaluation and proof of concept	None—event broker and storage are embedded
Installing Kubernetes for Production	Team and production deployments	External event broker, Postgres, and artifact storage required
Installing in an Air-Gapped Environment	Disconnected or restricted network environments	Same as production, but all dependencies must be accessible within the air-gapped network; private image registry also required

The Quick Start is not suitable for production use. It embeds a development event broker and ephemeral storage that are not supported for workloads serving real traffic.

For CPU and memory sizing guidance for production Kubernetes deployments, see Compute Resources.

To run workloads under a sandboxed container runtime such as gVisor or Kata Containers, see Sandbox Pod Runtimes.

For prerequisites that apply to all Kubernetes deployments, see Before You Begin.