Master DevOps practices for AI/ML teams on GKE. Covers Git workflows with Renovate dependency automation, CI platform comparison (GitHub Actions vs Tekton vs Dagger), container supply chain security (Trivy, Syft SBOM, Cosign signing, Binary Authorization), GitOps with ArgoCD vs Flux CD, Infrastructure as Code with Helm, Kustomize, Skaffold, and policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Conftest), secrets management with Google Secret Manager, progressive delivery with Flagger and Argo Rollouts, and AI artifact versioning (prompts, guardrails, eval suites as code). All labs run entirely within GKE pods using hosted LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini).
Python essentials and development environment for agent development
Virtual environments, async programming, type hints, Pydantic, error handling, testing, debugging, logging, project structure
Core LLM concepts: API clients, token economics, caching, and function calling basics
LLM APIs, OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini clients, prompt caching, token economics, function calling basics
Agent patterns: ReAct, planning, tool execution, sandboxing, web navigation, and MCP protocol
ReAct loop, planning patterns, tool execution, sandboxing, web navigation, MCP servers, MCP clients, tool routing
Memory systems, RAG patterns, context optimization, and LangGraph state machines
Short-term memory, long-term memory (RAG), agentic RAG patterns, semantic memory, context optimization, state graphs, conditional edges, checkpointing, human-in-the-loop, streaming, subgraphs
Multi-agent patterns, guardrails, evaluations, and observability
Supervisor pattern, hierarchical pattern, reflector pattern, input guardrails, output guardrails, prompt injection defense, evaluations, benchmarking, tracing, observability
Production deployment: APIs, containers, databases, scaling, CI/CD, and monitoring
FastAPI, Docker, production databases, scaling, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, model routing, fallbacks, system design
Alternative frameworks, protocols, specialized agents, autonomous workflows, and cutting-edge capabilities
CrewAI/AutoGen, A2A protocols, GraphRAG, local models, vision agents, voice agents, code agents, autonomous workflows, streaming data, agent swarms
Production excellence: trajectory evaluation, safety, cost control, enterprise patterns, and governance
Agent trajectory evaluation, safety boundaries, cost control, enterprise agent patterns, load testing, versioning, fleet dashboards, autonomous agent governance