CAIPE 101: Run and Extend the Community AI Platform Engineering Reference
CAIPE 101 is a hands-on tour of the Community AI Platform Engineering (CAIPE) reference architecture stewarded by the CNOE SIG-Agentic-AI. You will trace CAIPE's lineage from Cisco Outshift's Project Jarvis through the 2026 CNOE handover, learn the supervisor + sub-agent + A2A + MCP reference pattern that anchors the codebase, and put the platform to work locally and on Kubernetes. The course is intentionally scoped to how to *use* and *extend* CAIPE. It does not duplicate CAIPE's own documentation — every CAIPE-internal detail (helm values, per-agent configuration, API schemas) cross-links to the canonical doc site at https://cnoe-io.github.io/ai-platform-engineering/. What you get here is the connective tissue: where CAIPE sits in the CNOE / CNCF / agentic-AI ecosystem, why its building blocks were chosen, how the built-in sub-agents compose, and what the contribution path looks like end to end. Pairs with the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp as a "what next" pathway. Bootcamp graduates who want to evaluate CAIPE for production, build a custom sub-agent, or contribute upstream should take this course immediately after. Versions pinned across all lessons and labs: CAIPE release 0.4.10 (2026-05-08) and CNOE IDP Builder v0.10.2 (2026-04-13).
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What You'll Master
Place CAIPE inside the broader CNOE, CNCF, and agentic-AI ecosystem
Trace CAIPE's architectural evolution from Project Jarvis through CNOE SIG-Agentic-AI stewardship
Run CAIPE locally on a kind cluster via the CNOE IDP Builder
Deploy CAIPE on a Kubernetes cluster of your choice and validate the sub-agents end to end
Use the built-in sub-agents (ArgoCD, PagerDuty, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Komodor, Slack, Webex, and more) for representative platform tasks
Build a custom sub-agent following the template layout and register it through A2A
Submit a meaningful contribution upstream to CAIPE — at minimum a filed issue, ideally a draft PR
Plug into the CNOE community via Slack, GitHub, and the weekly SIG-Agentic-AI meeting
Course Curriculum
SECTION 1 – CNOE, CAIPE, AND THE PROJECT JARVIS STORY
Where CAIPE comes from, why it exists, and how it fits alongside Backstage, Crossplane, and ArgoCD.
- •What is CNOE?
- •From Project Jarvis to CAIPE
- •How CAIPE Fits Alongside Backstage, Crossplane, and ArgoCD
- •Section 1 Quiz: CNOE and CAIPE Concept CheckQuiz
SECTION 2 – ARCHITECTURE DEEP DIVE
Supervisor + sub-agents + A2A + MCP, agent cards and discovery, identity and the agent gateway.
- •Supervisor, Sub-Agents, A2A, and MCP — the Reference Pattern
- •Agent Cards, Discovery, and Deep Agents
- •Identity, RBAC, and the Agent Gateway — Enterprise-Grade Concerns
- •Section 2 Quiz: CAIPE ArchitectureQuiz
SECTION 3 – RUN CAIPE LOCALLY WITH IDP BUILDER
What the CNOE IDP Builder bootstraps and how to bring CAIPE up on a single laptop-friendly kind cluster.
- •CNOE IDP Builder — What it Bootstraps
- •Run CAIPE Locally with IDP BuilderLab
SECTION 4 – DEPLOY CAIPE ON KUBERNETES
Topology choices and a hands-on deploy on kind, EKS, or AKS.
- •Deployment Topology: Single-Cluster vs Split
- •Deploy CAIPE on KubernetesLab
SECTION 5 – EXPLORE BUILT-IN SUB-AGENTS
Tour the 19 sub-agents shipped at release 0.4.10 and drive a real self-service flow.
- •Ops Sub-Agents: ArgoCD, PagerDuty, GitHub, Komodor, Netutils
- •Atlassian, Comms, Logs, and the Rest of the 0.4.10 Catalog
- •Drive a Dev Box Self-Service Flow End-to-EndLab
- •Section 5 Quiz: Built-in Sub-Agent CapabilitiesQuiz
SECTION 6 – BUILD YOUR OWN SUB-AGENT AND CONTRIBUTE BACK
Author a custom sub-agent following CAIPE's template layout and open a draft PR upstream.
- •CAIPE's Sub-Agent Contribution Model
- •Open-Source Etiquette: Issues, Discussions, and PRs in CNOE
- •Capstone: Build a Custom Sub-Agent and Open a PR UpstreamLab
SECTION 7 – JOINING THE COMMUNITY
CNOE Slack #cnoe-sig-agentic-ai, the weekly SIG meeting, governance, and the road ahead.
- •Joining the CNOE Agentic AI Community
- •Final Quiz: CAIPE 101 SynthesisQuiz
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