# Kubernetes teams trust automation to ship code but not to touch CPU, and AI is raising the stakes

DevFeed: [Kubernetes teams trust automation to ship code but not to touch CPU, and AI is raising the stakes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kubernetes-teams-trust-automation-to-ship-code-but-not-to-touch-cpu-and-ai-is-raising-the-stakes-17632.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-teams-trust-automation/>)

Author: Yasmin Rajabi

Published: 2026-06-23T20:56:47Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Kubernetes Overview, News and Trends | The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kubernetes-overview-news-and-trends-the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [AI Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-inference.md>)

Tags: [ai-inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-inference.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed.md>), [contributed-cloudbolt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed-cloudbolt.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [finops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/finops.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>)

## AI overview

A survey of 321 enterprise Kubernetes practitioners finds a sharp trust gap between automated software delivery and automated resource optimization. While 82% report high or complete trust in delivery controls, 71% require human review for resource optimization recommendations and only 27% allow CPU and memory changes to be applied automatically. The article explains that rightsizing is perceived as riskier because it changes scheduling and runtime resource constraints.

## Source excerpt

Kubernetes teams automate deployments without thinking about it. CI/CD pipelines fire dozens of times a day, autoscaling adjusts replicas in The post Kubernetes teams trust automation to ship code but not to touch CPU, and AI is raising the stakes appeared first on The New Stack.