Lobster Trap: OpenClaw in Containers from Local to K8s and Back — Sally Ann O'Malley, Red Hat

Sharing a good agent setup usually means handing someone a pile of markdown, config files, and YAML and hoping they reproduce what you have. The answer in this demo is a container image: spin up a sub agent in two seconds from a Podman command, flip a flag for Kubernetes, and your personal setup becomes the team baseline. The stack is Podman locally, Kubernetes for distribution, same container image throughout. Secrets get two layers: Podman secrets for API keys on the host, OpenClaw secret refs inside the container. Volumes handle backup and recovery. An Nvidia team runs the same pattern in production with ten engineers each running their own OpenClaw in Kubernetes for model evals, doing work that used to take six people. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-ann-omalley/