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Course · 30 lessons

AI Intermediate: Infrastructure & Agentic Systems

From containers to autonomous agents

A hands-on 30-day course for engineers who want to run AI in production: containers, Kubernetes, networking and security, then MLOps and enterprise agents, one lesson a day with animated diagrams.

Starting soon: 30 lessons, one a day.

Week 1 · Bare-Metal Infrastructure & Advanced Containerization

  1. Day 1The AI Infrastructure Shift: Why the Model is Only 10% of the Production SystemComing soon
  2. Day 2Advanced Docker for AI: Multi-Stage Builds for Heavy Python RuntimesComing soon
  3. Day 3Hardware Acceleration in Docker: Configuring Resource Passthrough for Constrained HardwareComing soon
  4. Day 4Optimizing Model Weights: Quantization Basics (GGUF, AWQ) for Efficient InferenceComing soon
  5. Day 5Local AI Runtimes: Deploying Ollama and vLLM for Bare-Metal ExecutionComing soon
  6. Day 6Containerizing AI Microservices: Building and Packaging APIs with FastAPIComing soon
  7. Day 7Docker Compose: Architecting a Multi-Container Database and Inference Stack LocallyComing soon

Week 2 · Kubernetes Foundation for MLOps

  1. Day 8K3d & Lightweight Kubernetes: Running Multi-Node Clusters on 16GB of RAMComing soon
  2. Day 9Kubernetes Core for Machine Learning: Pods, Deployments, and Headless ServicesComing soon
  3. Day 10Persistent Volumes (PV/PVC): Managing Heavy Model Weights and Vector StoresComing soon
  4. Day 11StatefulSets for Vector Databases: Deploying Milvus or Qdrant in KubernetesComing soon
  5. Day 12Auto-Scaling AI Inference: Using Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPA) for Spiky API TrafficComing soon
  6. Day 13Helm Charts: Packaging, Versioning, and Updating AI DeploymentsComing soon
  7. Day 14Week 2 Capstone: Deploying a Highly Available Local AI Application on K3dComing soon

Week 3 · High-Performance Networking & Security Mesh

  1. Day 15AI Network Bottlenecks: Transitioning from iptables to eBPFComing soon
  2. Day 16Cilium & eBPF: Sub-Millisecond Routing for Heavy AI MicroservicesComing soon
  3. Day 17Service Mesh 101: Installing Istio over Your Local ClusterComing soon
  4. Day 18Envoy Proxy as an AI Gateway: Load Balancing and Terminating LLM PromptsComing soon
  5. Day 19Zero-Trust mTLS: Encrypting Traffic Between Autonomous AgentsComing soon
  6. Day 20API Rate Limiting & Egress Control: Preventing Agents from Exfiltrating DataComing soon
  7. Day 21Distributed Tracing: Debugging Agent Workflows with Jaeger and OpenTelemetryComing soon

Week 4 · Enterprise Agents & CI/CD Workflows

  1. Day 22Introduction to MLOps: Bridging AI Development with Continuous IntegrationComing soon
  2. Day 23GitOps with ArgoCD: Automated, Self-Healing AI DeploymentsComing soon
  3. Day 24Building Ephemeral AI Sandboxes: Secure Execution Environments for Agent CodeComing soon
  4. Day 25Multi-Agent Orchestration Frameworks: Exploring Mastra, LangGraph, and CrewAIComing soon
  5. Day 26Tool-Calling in Production: Connecting Agents Securely to Internal DatabasesComing soon
  6. Day 27MLOps Guardrails: Evaluating Agents and Preventing Hallucinations in Real-TimeComing soon
  7. Day 28Continuous Training Pipelines: Connecting Data Ingestion to Automated Model RetrainingComing soon
  8. Day 29Managing Technical Debt and Infrastructure Drift in Enterprise AIComing soon
  9. Day 30The AI-Native Platform: Scaling from a Sandbox Environment to Global Cloud ArchitectureComing soon