Wednesday 8 July, 2026 | 1:30 PM Pacific / 2:30 PM Mountain / 3:30 PM Central / 4:30 PM Eastern
Thursday 9 July, 2026 | 8:30 AM New Zealand Time
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The AI vibe-coding wave is real, and it is not slowing down. Tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT have created an entirely new category of developer: people across your business who are now shipping working applications without a computer science background or a decade of infrastructure experience. The problem isn't the code they're producing. The problem is what happens next - the moment an app needs to run on your infrastructure, connect to an internal system, or sit behind your firewall, that option disappears. The only path forward is a ticket to your platform team. And your platform team is already stretched.
In this webinar, we'll show you a better way. Join us for a live walkthrough of Portainer-Run, the deployment portal built specifically for the everyone-developer, with the guardrails your platform team actually needs. We'll demonstrate how a non-technical user can go from a folder of AI-generated files to a running application inside your Kubernetes environment, in minutes, with no YAML, no kubectl, and no infrastructure knowledge required. At the same time, we'll show how platform engineers retain full GitOps auditability, RBAC enforcement, and policy control throughout - without processing a single ticket.
Whether you're a platform engineer looking for a way to reduce deployment toil, or a team lead watching AI-generated apps pile up with nowhere safe to run them, this session is built for you. Come see what self-service deployment looks like when it's done responsibly.
Key Takeaways
- The everyone-developer is here to stay. AI coding tools have permanently expanded who builds software inside your organization, and your infrastructure strategy needs to reflect that.
- Self-service deployment doesn't have to mean loss of control. With the right guardrails in place, non-technical users can deploy safely inside your Kubernetes environment without ever touching YAML, kubectl, or a support ticket.
- Your platform team's role is shifting. From processing every deployment request to setting policy once and letting the platform enforce it - a better use of their time.
- The gap between AI-generated code and corporate production is solvable today. Portainer-Run is purpose-built to close it, without the year-long configuration burden of traditional IDP solutions.
This Webinar Is for You If
- You're a platform engineer or infrastructure lead whose team is fielding an increasing volume of deployment requests from non-technical colleagues.
- You're an IT or engineering manager watching AI-generated applications pile up with no clear, safe path to get them running inside your environment.
- You've evaluated IDP solutions like Backstage or commercial alternatives and found the setup cost too high relative to the problem they solve.
- You want to see a live, end-to-end demo of self-service deployment that works for non-technical users without compromising your team's governance and audit requirements.
Speakers
Neil Cresswell
Founder and CEO
Neil Cresswell is the co-founder and CEO of Portainer, a popular platform that simplifies container management for Docker, Kubernetes, and edge environments. A veteran of over 25 years in IT, he began his career with 12 years at IBM before leading VMware consulting at ViFX across Asia-Pacific and serving as CEO for cloud service providers. Frustrated by the lack of usable tooling for “containers as a service,” he created Portainer to make container technology accessible to everyone. Under his leadership, Portainer has grown from an open-source UI into an enterprise-ready platform used globally.
James Carppe
Product Marketing Manager
A former web developer, operations manager, and radio announcer, James is a big fan of technology in all forms. When not making videos and helping Portainer customers out, you'll often find him watching films and television, pretending to be a photographer, and tinkering with the latest gadgets.