From Local to Production: OpenAI Agents SDK

A hands-on tutorial building intuitions for what it takes to go from running an AI agent on your laptop to deploying it in the cloud.

What's covered

• Building a simple agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK
• Serving it as a FastAPI API
• Adding session-based memory
• Client-server architecture
• Cloud computing, Docker, and deployment basics
• Scaling challenges and solutions
• Control plane / data plane patterns for multi-agent systems

Getting started

uv sync
cp .env.example .env  # add your OpenAI API key
uv run uvicorn server:app --port 8000

Then open notebook.ipynb to follow along.