The future belongs to companies that not only test AI, but integrate it productively, securely, and economically into their processes. The path forward leads through modern AI-native platforms, clear governance, digital sovereignty, and a new generation of intelligent agent systems. In this issue, we show how companies successfully scale Agentic AI, keep their costs under control, and build the technical foundation for the next stage of their digital transformation. Look forward to new solutions, technical insights, community events, and practical experiences from the world of Cloud Native, Platform Engineering, and AI Engineering.
Enjoy reading, from your white duck team!
AI Operations & Governance
Token Control 5.1: Governance for everything agents do
With Token Control 5.1, enterprises gain greater transparency and control over AI applications and agents. New governance features for Responses API, Web Search, File Search, and MCP support compliance, security, and cost control across all Azure AI models. Now easy and convenient to test in the SaaS model, including AI model provisioning.
Controlling Microsoft Foundry Agents with Token Control
Microsoft Foundry enables the rapid development of AI agents. Token Control adds a centralized governance layer for budgets, limits, compliance, and cost control across multiple environments.
Token Control for ISVs: Sell AI features instead of subsidizing them
AI features are easily integrated; billing is often the bigger challenge. Token Control enables usage-based allocation of costs and budgets per customer, user, or feature, and creates the foundation for monetization and FinOps.
AI Engineering: Discipline saves more than any model switch
It is not the model that determines the cost of an AI solution, but how context, agents, and development processes are handled. We show which measures companies can implement immediately to sustainably reduce their AI costs.
Agentic AI
Flock v0.5.500: Enterprise security for Agentic AI
With Flock v0.5.500, Agentic AI becomes ready for enterprise deployment. New security features such as Entra ID authentication and guardrails against prompt injection increase protection and governance for production agent systems.
Flock & Dapr: Agent swarms that survive restarts
Production agent systems require more than powerful models. The integration of Flock and Dapr delivers essential building blocks for resilient, scalable, and cloud-native agent platforms.
The live demo in the Dapr Community Call on YouTube.
AI Pilots Are Not Enough: Why SMEs Need an AI Foundation
Many companies have successfully implemented initial AI pilots. For production deployment, however, an AI foundation is required that takes governance, security, and scalability into account from the start.
Company News
Wrap-up: Cloud Native Summit Munich 2026
Over 400 participants, 82 speakers, and 67 sessions made the 5th Cloud Native Summit Munich once again the meeting point for the cloud-native and AI community. Topics such as Agentic AI, platform APIs, and digital sovereignty were at the center of attention.
Save the date – CNS Munich 2027 will take place on June 14 & 15, 2027.
You can already purchase tickets and/or become our event sponsor. All details are available on the website.
Our team continues to grow
Our team is gaining further reinforcement: With Dylan Ciletti and Eva Kallrath, we are expanding our expertise in software engineering and platform engineering.
Dylan brings experience in C#/.NET, Python, as well as in the modernization and optimization of existing software systems.
Together with Eva, we are also strengthening our platform engineering team and supporting our customers in building modern, scalable cloud and AI platforms.
More about Eva & more about Dylan.
Events
Webinar ReLive: After the hype comes the craft
AI-assisted development promises great potential. In the presentation, Nico shows what experiences companies have already gained and which measures are truly relevant now.
Wrap-up: ContainerDays – Hijacking agents, without any exploit
How can modern AI agents be compromised without exploiting classic software vulnerabilities? The key findings from Nico’s live demo can be found in the presentation slides and the GitHub repository.
If you want to experience the talk live, Nico will present it at the Cloud Native Days Austria on September 29, 2026. All details are available at the following link.
To the slides & to the GitHub repo.
AI Meetup Wasserburg: Plug & Play for AI agents
Agent Skills package capabilities as reusable building blocks for any agent. Martin Brandl, CTO of white duck, will show in short demos on September 24 at 7 PM how to find, install, and directly deploy skills, even without a developer background.
IAMCP TechTalk: The context layer for enterprise agents: Work IQ MCP Server
How do AI agents gain access to relevant enterprise knowledge? In the TechTalk, we show how the Work IQ MCP Server makes information from Microsoft 365 available for custom agents. More on this on October 22 in the TechTalk.
After the Hype: How ISVs Turn Agentic AI into a Product
The AI hype is over; now implementation counts. Together with ADN, we show how software vendors can deploy Agentic AI productively and accelerate their development processes with GitHub Copilot. Join us on November 11 in Munich.
AI Weißwurstfrühstück: When the agent switches sides
Security is becoming the decisive factor for Agentic AI. At the next AI Weißwurstfrühstück, we will discuss current attack vectors, agent hijacking, and zero-trust strategies for AI agents. Join us on November 13 in Kufstein.
Good to Know
Ingress NGINX is discontinued – how to migrate to AKS
The end of Ingress NGINX presents many Kubernetes teams with important architectural decisions. We compare the most important alternatives for AKS and show suitable migration paths for different requirements.
