Installation Overview

CAIPE ships as a set of containerized services deployable via Helm or Docker Compose. Pick the path that matches your environment:

Environment	Best for	Guide
Docker Compose	Local development and quick evaluation	Docker Compose →
KinD	Local Kubernetes cluster (CI / laptop)	KinD →
Helm (production)	Any Kubernetes cluster — EKS, GKE, AKS, on-prem	Helm →
EKS	AWS-managed Kubernetes	EKS →

Prerequisites

• LLM provider — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Vertex AI Gemini, local Ollama, LiteLLM proxy, etc.)
• Kubernetes 1.27+ (for Helm / KinD / EKS paths) or Docker Compose v2 (for local path)
• kubectl, helm 3.x, and optionally kind installed on your workstation

What gets deployed

A full CAIPE stack includes:

• supervisor-agent — orchestrates all sub-agent calls
• caipe-ui — web interface (React / Next.js)
• MongoDB — chat and agent-config persistence
• dynamic-agents — runtime for user-built custom agents
• RAG stack (optional) — ingestors, vector store, graph RAG server
• Slack / Webex bots (optional)

The minimal install (supervisor + UI + MongoDB) is enough to run the pre-built agent fleet.

Quickest path

# Interactive setup script — detects Docker or Kubernetes automatically
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering/main/setup-caipe.sh)

Or via Helm directly:

helm upgrade --install ai-platform-engineering \
    oci://ghcr.io/cnoe-io/charts/ai-platform-engineering \
    --version 0.4.8 -f your-values.yaml

See Getting Started → Quick Start for a full walkthrough.

Persistence

To enable durable conversation checkpoints and cross-session memory, see the Persistence guide — it covers Redis, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB options.

Helm Chart Reference

The Helm section contains the full values.yaml reference for every sub-chart, including agent profiles, ingress, ExternalSecrets, and LLM configuration. Individual chart references are in the sidebar under Chart Reference.