Meet Konrad: The AI SRE That Runs My Infrastructure - and Can Never Act Alone

marcus@pichler.dev (Marcus Pichler) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TL;DR

Konrad is a self-hosted AI Site Reliability Engineer. He lives inside Alois, my LangGraph-based agent platform, and he has 88 tools - Prometheus, Loki, kubectl, ArgoCD, Proxmox, Wazuh, OPNsense - wired directly into my homelab. He can query metrics, read logs, correlate alerts, and, when something is actually broken, restart a deployment, delete a crash-looping pod, drain a node, or patch a host.

The interesting part is not that an LLM can call kubectl. That is easy, and mostly a bad idea. The interesting part is the gate: 17 of those 88 tools are destructive, and no language model decides whether they run. A deterministic, pattern-matched quarantine intercepts every mutating call and holds it until a human taps [Erlauben] (“Allow”) in Telegram. The model proposes; a human disposes; the cluster only changes after a single-use, target-bound approval token is consumed.

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Meet Konrad: The AI SRE That Runs My Infrastructure - and Can Never Act Alone

TL;DR