Deploy the Agentic Harness on Azure.
This guide maps every subsystem in the harness — the agent runtime, RAG pipeline, knowledge graph, MCP server, governance — to concrete Azure services. Whether you're deploying a proof-of-concept or running in production, this is your infrastructure playbook.
What this guide covers
This is the infrastructure companion to the Developer Guide. The Developer Guide teaches you the code — how the agent loop works, how skills load, how RAG retrieves context. This guide teaches you where it runs: which Azure services back each subsystem, how they connect, what they cost, and what changes between a local dev box and a production deployment.
Who this guide is for
Platform engineers, cloud architects, and DevOps leads evaluating the harness for their organization. You're the person who needs to answer "what do we need to provision?" and "what will this cost us?" before the team starts building on top of the template.
We assume familiarity with Azure fundamentals — resource groups, subscriptions, managed identity, the basics of Container Apps or App Service. We don't assume you've read the application code, and we won't ask you to. If you need the code-level walkthrough, start with the Developer Guide instead.
Pages in this guide
The full resource map. Every Azure service, how they connect, and which resource groups they live in.
02Where the harness runs (Container Apps, App Service, AKS) and how Azure OpenAI powers the agent.
03RAG pipeline infrastructure: AI Search, FAISS, embeddings. Knowledge graph backends: Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Kuzu.
04VNet topology, private endpoints, Entra ID integration, Key Vault, and MCP server exposure.
05OpenTelemetry to Azure Monitor or Grafana. Tracing agent conversations, governance metrics, alerting.
06Cost tiers (dev $50/mo to prod $800+/mo), scaling patterns, CI/CD, governance runtime.
Developer Guide — How the code works. The agent loop, skills, tools, RAG pipeline, MCP, and patterns explained at the source level. Start here if you're writing code.
Architecture Guide (this) — How to deploy it on Azure. Resource maps, SKU recommendations, cost tiers, networking, and observability infrastructure. Start here if you're provisioning environments.
Interactive Course — Conceptual overview for non-technical stakeholders, new team members, or anyone who wants to understand what the harness does before diving into code or infrastructure.