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AI agent subsystem

Local cluster

Any local Kubernetes works. The two most common choices are kind and minikube. The controller auto-detects whether it runs in-cluster or against a local kubeconfig, so the same image works in both.

kind

Section titled “kind”
Terminal window
kind create cluster --name ai-agents
kubectl config use-context kind-ai-agents

Because the agent runtime is injected at run time, your Station images only need to be glibc-based (for example debian:bookworm-slim). Load locally built images into the cluster with:

Terminal window
kind load docker-image ai-agent:dev --name ai-agents

minikube

Section titled “minikube”
Terminal window
minikube start -p ai-agents
kubectl config use-context ai-agents

To use locally built images without a registry, build against minikube’s Docker daemon:

Terminal window
eval "$(minikube -p ai-agents docker-env)"
# docker build ... ai-agent:dev

Next

Section titled “Next”

With a cluster running, continue to Install.