Platform Assistant Agent
Create an AI agent that queries Kubernetes clusters with read-only guardrails and safety boundaries.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 4. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/ai-platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 4: AI Agents and Agentic Workflows (slug: ai-agents-104)
🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running Platform Assistant capstone arc that grows across all 8 weeks of the bootcamp.
This hands-on lab teaches you to build a Platform Assistant that can investigate Kubernetes issues.
You'll learn to:
- Create kubectl wrapper tools for pods, deployments, and logs
- Implement safety guardrails that block dangerous operations
- Build a ReAct agent with read-only cluster access
- Add audit logging for all agent actions
This lab creates the core Platform Assistant for the bootcamp capstone project.
What You'll Learn
Create kubectl wrapper tools for safe cluster queries
Implement safety guardrails that block dangerous operations
Build a ReAct agent with read-only Kubernetes access
Add audit logging for compliance and debugging
Prerequisites
build-first-agent
kubernetes-fundamentals
Technologies Covered
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