Palana (Part 1): Why Grab built a secure platform for autonomous AI Agents

This post introduces Palana, Grab's Kubernetes-native platform for running autonomous AI agents securely. It details the platform's design principles including isolation as the unit of trust, never giving credentials directly to the agent, making egress a control point via Envoy and OPA, and ensuring the control plane remains outside the agent. It also highlights the use of Kubernetes primitives for managing agent lifecycles and resources.