AI SRE in Practice: Tracing Policy Changes to Widespread Pod Failures

In a scenario where policy changes in Kubernetes led to unexpected widespread pod failures, the investigation process highlights the challenges of identifying and remediating policy-related issues. Initially, engineers faced a time-consuming manual investigation to trace the root cause to a PodSecurityPolicy change that unintentionally violated existing workload configurations. This required high expertise and coordination across teams, consuming significant time to resolve. However, the use of AI-driven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tools like Klaudia dramatically improved efficiency by quickly correlating policy changes with failures, identifying root causes, and suggesting remediation options. This AI capability reduced investigation time from hours to minutes and required less specialized knowledge, allowing platform teams to implement stricter security controls more confidently and respond to incidents more effectively. The AI's ability to parallelize assessments and provide immediate feedback enhances operational agility and facilitates more sophisticated policy enforcement without increasing the risk of service disruptions.