# Infrastructure & compute

Author: Murali Sid (https://linkedin.com/in/muralisid)
Source: https://www.agenticarchitectureskills.com/library/layers/r01-infrastructure
Published: 2026-09-18
Updated: 2026-09-18
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Cite as: Murali Sid. Infrastructure & compute. Agentic Architecture Skills. https://www.agenticarchitectureskills.com/library/layers/r01-infrastructure

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Status: complete (published 2026-08-19). Scope finalized at Batch A kickoff with maintainer POV; see findings.md and sources.md.

## Scope inventory (v0) [#scope-inventory-v0]

* **Current estate**: cloud landing zones, multi-cloud and region strategy, Kubernetes, serverless, IaC and GitOps provisioning automation, environment strategy (dev/test/prod parity for agents)
* **Agent execution**: sandboxes and isolation (microVMs, containers), browser and computer-use infrastructure, VDI where agents act on desktops, ephemeral cattle environments with lazy provisioning, cold-start and time-to-first-token economics
* **Model serving**: GPU and accelerator capacity planning, inference serving for self-hosted and open-weight models, edge inference for OT and remote sites
* **Networking for agents**: egress control and allowlists, forward proxies, private connectivity to SaaS and model providers, service mesh
* **Identity and resilience**: workload identity for agent compute, infra-level secrets and short-lived credentials, checkpoint and session persistence, crash recovery, DR, quotas and noisy-neighbor controls
* **Cost**: resource tagging and showback, autoscaling policy, spot and reserved capacity strategy

## Challenged-default candidates [#challenged-default-candidates]

Self-hosted GPU estates vs metered APIs; dedicated agent-sandbox products vs hardened containers. Each track proposes its final list at kickoff.

## Files [#files]

`findings.md` and `sources.md` carry this track's research. The scoping brief and the vendor map were archived on 2026-08-23 (see `archive/`, decision D038).