Hibernate and Evolving: Taming OpenClaw With OpenKruise Agents - Zhang Zhen, Alibaba Cloud

OpenClaw's rapid adoption has highlighted critical "Day-2" operational challenges: high costs of idle agents, sandbox instability, and complex version upgrades. This session presents a production-ready best practice using OpenKruise Agents to manage these agents efficiently on Kubernetes. We will demonstrate three core strategies: 1. Secure Execution: Enforcing network isolation and secure API key injection 2. Cost Optimization: Implementing automatic hibernation to scale resources of idle agents to zero, slashing infrastructure costs. 3. Zero-Downtime Upgrades: Evolving OpenClaw versions seamlessly without losing agent state or data. Finally, we will discuss integrating the upcoming Kubernetes Checkpoint/Restore API to enable vendor-neutral sandbox hibernation. Join us to transform your OpenClaw deployment into a scalable, cost-efficient system.