Need Air-Gapped Agent and MCP Deployment
Regulated enterprises need agentic and MCP runtimes that deploy fully inside their own VPC, OpenShift, or air-gapped environment — with complete traceability of every call — rather than depending on SaaS control planes or pay-per-use utility-model vendors.
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Persona Story:
Morgan, the security & compliance lead, is approving the agentic AI rollout but only on the condition that the runtime — the integration layer, the MCP servers, the orchestration engine — runs entirely inside the company’s own VPC or OpenShift cluster, with no data leaving the perimeter and complete trace evidence for every agent call. Morgan’s auditors do not accept “the SaaS vendor logs it for you” as a control. The runtime has to be deployable, observable, and shut-down-able from inside the customer’s environment.
Problem Context
- Banks, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and other regulated enterprises cannot send call payloads, MCP context, or trace data to a SaaS control plane outside their network perimeter
- Many integration and gateway vendors have moved to a SaaS / pay-per-use utility model where the control plane is hosted by the vendor, regardless of where the data plane runs
- Air-gapped environments require all auth, secret material, and trace storage to live inside the customer’s environment — the runtime cannot phone home for license validation, telemetry, or feature flags
- Auditors demand complete traceability of every agent decision — input, tool call, output, model identity — stored inside the customer’s compliance boundary
Problem Impact
- Regulated enterprises cannot adopt SaaS-only AI integration platforms even when the platform technically supports their use case, because the deployment topology violates their compliance posture
- Internal AI rollouts stall in security review for months while teams negotiate carve-outs that vendors cannot accommodate
- Companies fall back to building bespoke in-house integration runtimes, duplicating work the platform market has already solved
- Audit findings on cross-border data flow or unapproved third-party data sharing trigger remediation projects that consume the budget the AI program needed
Naftiko Today
- Container-native deployment means the entire Naftiko runtime ships as Docker images that run inside the customer’s VPC, OpenShift, or bare-metal Kubernetes cluster — no SaaS control plane required
- Declarative YAML capability spec is the only artifact that crosses the trust boundary; the runtime, secrets, logs, and trace data all stay inside the customer environment
- External bindings let the runtime consume secrets and credentials from the customer’s existing vault rather than introducing a vendor-managed credential layer
- REST and MCP exposures bind to customer-controlled endpoints with no required outbound traffic to Naftiko-managed infrastructure
Naftiko Tomorrow
- Offline / air-gapped license validation (v1.1) would remove any latent dependency on outbound license-check traffic that some compliance regimes already disallow
- Enterprise IAM integration with Keycloak and OpenFGA (v1.1) would allow the runtime’s identity model to live entirely inside the customer’s existing IdP fabric
- Capability bundling for offline distribution (Second Alpha) would let air-gapped customers ship signed capability bundles into their environment without pulling from a public registry
- Backstage capability cards rendered against the customer’s local catalog (Third Alpha) would give Morgan an in-VPC observability surface, removing the last reason an air-gapped deployment would need an outside dashboard