Cortney Nickerson

Welcoming @Akamai and @MiroHQ as the latest "official" Kyverno adopters! If you are using Kyverno, join the adopter club at: github.com/kyverno/kyvern…

Inside @NirmataCloud: The Autonomous Governance Platform Enabling AI at Scale The last generation of cloud infrastructure grew at the pace at which humans could build and operate static applications. That world is gone. Two things have changed at once. Applications are becoming AI-driven and dynamic, and the rate at which teams are shipping software has increased dramatically with AI-assisted development. Yet most organizations are still relying on manual platform engineering and SRE processes to govern this complexity. That mismatch is fast becoming one of the biggest risks in modern engineering. As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly AI-dominated and AI-powered, this problem does not only affect teams deploying AI models. It also impacts anyone scaling and operating modern infrastructure using AI-driven tools, where systems now change faster than humans can reliably manage. This is the problem Nirmata is built to solve. Nirmata sits at the policy enforcement layer of modern cloud and AI infrastructure. Through policy-as-code, continuous evaluation, and automated remediation, it enables platform teams to move from manual enforcement to intent-driven governance. Their traction reflects how urgent this shift is. 🚀Over 3 billion downloads. ✨More than 8,000 GitHub stars. 💻Adopted by 6,000+ enterprises. @kyverno, the open-source policy engine created by the Nirmata team, is on track for CNCF graduation and is already becoming a default standard for policy enforcement in Kubernetes environments. What matters most is the direction of travel. As AI systems scale, governance cannot remain static. Platform engineering has to move from configuration to control loops, from alerts to outcomes, from humans reacting to systems to systems that can correct themselves. Nirmata is building for that future. 🪶This is the first spotlight in Surge Spotlight, our new series taking a closer look at the companies from Surge 11 and the category shifts they represent. @JimBugwadia @riteshdp @RajanAnandan @aaditya @Aadith__Ramesh