We Shipped Our A2A Agents to Azure. Here’s Exactly What Broke First.

A2A Protocol, Part 3: ACA for Speed, AKS for Scale, and the Production Mistakes We Made So You Don’t Have To Parts 1 and 2 covered why we built with A2A and how we built it. This is the part where we actually shipped it - and learned that “works on my machine” and “runs in production” are very different sentences. Image Generated by Gemini Let me tell you about the Tuesday afternoon everything worked perfectly on localhost and completely fell apart the moment we deployed it. The A2A server was containerized. The client was containerized. Keycloak was running. APIM was configured.