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LABINTERMEDIATE

Platform Assistant Agent

Create an AI agent that queries Kubernetes clusters with read-only guardrails and safety boundaries.

75 minutes
ai-infrastructure/agents
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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

agentskuberneteslangchainplatform-engineeringsafetyguardrails

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the AI Agents and Agentic Workflows course

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