The next frontier of DevOps and Platform Engineering is Agentic AI. We need to learn how autonomous agents reason and adapt to reduce cognitive load and accelerate the SDLC as we want to move beyond simple automation to build self-optimizing ecosystems that scale with confidence, innovation, and enterprise governance.
We should be able to:
- Explain the shift from automation to agentic AI and articulate what makes an AI system truly
- “agentic”
- Design agent-aware workflows in GitHub Actions, integrating LLMs with events, logs, APIs, and quality gates to create intelligent CI/CD pipelines
- Build AI-powered diagnostic loops that ingest failure context, reason about root causes, and generate structured remediation proposals or self-healing fixes
- Implement intelligent release decisions using multi-signal quality gates (test coverage, performance, security, cost) and generate auditable release rationale reports
- Deploy our own end-to-end platform engineering agent, capable of diagnosing pipeline failures, evaluating release readiness, and autonomously opening a fix PR or escalating with structured context.
Learning while Doing
- Identify Platform engineering pain points and the AI opportunity
- How can we get from static scripts and CI/CD automation to agentic AI
- Make a comparison of manual vs. AI-driven diagnosis
- Understand how platform engineering is evolving from static automation toward AI-driven systems that proactively diagnose and resolve operational issues
- Agentic AI fundamentals - how agents reason and act?
- Learn about core agent components (LLMs, memory, and tools)
- Compare event-driven vs. polling architectures
- Balance autonomous actions with human oversight
- Understand how agentic systems combine reasoning, memory, and tools to perceive events, make decisions, and act within engineering workflows
- How to setup the environment and create our first agentic workflow
- Set up an agentic runtime that responds to CI/CD events
- Connect an AI agent to our pipeline's event stream and context
- Trigger our first agent run and interpret its reasoning logs
- Learn how to connect AI agents to CI/CD events and platform context to trigger automated reasoning and actions in real time
- AI-powered diagnosis and remediation
- Compare manual vs. AI-driven incident diagnosis
- Build agents that read logs, reason about failures, and propose fixes
- Define escalation boundaries: when the agent self-heals vs. asks a human
- Understand how AI agents analyze logs, diagnose failures, and determine whether to self-heal or escalate issues to humans
- Intelligent CI/CD & adaptive delivery
- How to move beyond pass/fail pipelines to AI-driven release decision
- Automate rollback decisions using AI quality gates
- Query pipeline state and release history using natural language
- How AI transforms CI/CD pipelines into adaptive systems that make context-aware release and rollback decisions
- Operational intelligence & conversational observability
- Replace complex dashboards with AI anomaly detection
- Check platform health via chat interfaces
- Shift from reactive alerts to predictive management
- Understand how AI enables conversational access to platform health and detects anomalies to support proactive operations.
- Multi-agent coordination & implementation strategy
- Architect multi-agent systems for our platform workflows
- Handle agent conflicts, failures, and graceful degradation
- Design a phased enterprise rollout with guardrails and audit trails
- Build our platform engineering agent
- Learn how to design coordinated multi-agent systems that handle complex platform workflows with governance and reliability
- Wire together diagnosis, quality gates, and observability into one agent pipeline
- Implement self-healing PRs with confidence thresholds
- Shift our role from platform operator to AI supervisor
- Learn how to combine diagnosis, delivery intelligence, and observability into a unified agent that automates key platform workflows
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