Run CAIPE Locally with IDP Builder
Bring up a single kind cluster with the CNOE IDP Builder, layer CAIPE on top via setup-caipe.sh with a trimmed sub-agent set, and drive the ArgoCD sub-agent end-to-end through the supervisor.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the CAIPE 101 course. Used in Section 3: Run CAIPE Locally. Course landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/courses/caipe-101
🟡 Beta lab. The setup script, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Hands-on guidance follows the upstream CAIPE 0.4.10 and IDP Builder v0.10.2 release tags.
In this lab you bring the CNOE AI Platform Engineering (CAIPE) reference stack up on your own VM — kind cluster with ArgoCD, Gitea, and ingress-nginx — then layer the CAIPE supervisor and sub-agent pods on top.
You will install the `idpbuilder` CLI pinned at v0.10.2, run `idpbuilder create` to lay down the CNOE reference platform, then clone the CAIPE repo at tag 0.4.10 and run `setup-caipe.sh --non-interactive` wired to the TeKanAid LiteLLM gateway. Once the supervisor is up you will fetch its A2A agent card at `/.well-known/agent-card.json`, probe a sub-agent MCP endpoint, then send a real JSON-RPC 2.0 prompt through the supervisor and read back the structured A2A response. Finally you tear the environment down idempotently.
By the end you will understand CAIPE's two-protocol architecture: the supervisor uses A2A (JSON-RPC 2.0 at POST /), and sub-agents use MCP over SSE at their /mcp endpoint.
What You'll Learn
Install the idpbuilder CLI pinned at v0.10.2 and bring up the CNOE reference platform on a kind cluster
Clone the CAIPE repo at release tag 0.4.10 and run setup-caipe.sh --non-interactive wired to the TeKanAid LiteLLM gateway
Verify the CAIPE supervisor pod is Running in the caipe namespace
Fetch the supervisor A2A agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json and identify the protocol version and skills
Probe a sub-agent MCP endpoint to see the Server-Sent Events transport that links supervisor to sub-agents
Send a JSON-RPC 2.0 message/send request to the supervisor root endpoint and extract the answer from result.artifacts
Tear the environment down idempotently with idpbuilder delete and kind delete cluster
Prerequisites
Familiarity with kubectl and Helm basics
Conceptual understanding of the A2A protocol and agent cards (L4-L6 of CAIPE 101)
Comfort reading JSON-RPC requests and responses
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