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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion docs/docs/how-to/kubernetes-exec-backend.md
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Expand Up @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ create is constrained by a cluster `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy` (VAP). Together,
`quantity()` CEL extension).
- A hermes-agent image that bundles the `kubernetes` client extra (the
agent's `kubernetes_subprocess.ExecutionBackend` driver imports it lazily).
The agent-side backend is proposed upstream in
[NousResearch/hermes-agent#37591](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37591);
until it ships in a tagged release, use an image built from that branch
(e.g. `ghcr.io/undermountaincc/hermes-agent`).
- The session-pod VAP installed cluster-wide (see below). The CR's
`spec.execBackend: kubernetes` reconciles the per-agent Role / RoleBinding /
session SA regardless, but **without the VAP the bare `pods/create` Role
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -108,4 +112,10 @@ reconcile.
The agent-side implementation (the `kubernetes_subprocess` backend, the
`TERMINAL_ENV=kubernetes` plumbing, the lazy-loadable Python dep) lives in
the upstream [hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent)
repo.
repo, contributed in
[PR #37591](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/37591). This
operator provides the cluster-side half — the per-agent exec RBAC, the
powerless session ServiceAccount, and the session-pod `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy`
that make granting `pods/create` safe. Track that PR for the upstream status;
once it lands in a tagged release, the stock `nousresearch/hermes-agent` image
works without a custom build.
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