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Almost every infrastructure team running modern AI is wrestling with the same question. The orchestrator their AI workloads want, Kubernetes, and the orchestrator their HPC environment was built on, Slurm, pull in different directions. This piece, drawn from the HPCKP 2026 session of the same name, looks at why that tension exists, what the workloads actually look like, how teams are bridging the two today, and where the pattern is heading.

Zero trust is an architectural principle, not a product. It means assuming breach, verifying every connection explicitly, and granting the minimum access required for each interaction. This post covers how those principles apply to Kubernetes AI infrastructure and specifically how ClearML’s security model slots into each layer: network segmentation, workload identity, access controls, and audit logging. Kubernetes AI infrastructure and where ClearML fits into the model.