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End-to-End Agent Deployment

April 21, 2026 Alexey Grigorev

We build a FAQ chatbot from notebook to production. You start with a Jupyter notebook that calls the OpenAI Responses API with a single search tool. Then you wrap it in FastAPI and add a vanilla-JS frontend with streaming (SSE). From there you containerize with Docker, deploy to Railway, and add a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline.

Each step is done alongside a coding agent. The prompts are included verbatim so you can reproduce the workflow with any agent you like.

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The app you will build

The final app looks like this:

Browser requests reach one FastAPI app whose agent loop calls a local FAQ search tool and the OpenAI model before streaming the answer back.

The final app answers questions from the DataTalks.Club Data Engineering Zoomcamp FAQ. The model gets one tool, search(query). Everything else is the web layer, the container, and the deploy pipeline.

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  1. Overview and setup
  2. Part 1: The starting notebook
  3. Part 2: Notebook to FastAPI backend
  4. Part 3: Vanilla-JS frontend with Vite
  5. Part 4: Streaming with Server-Sent Events
  6. Part 5: Dockerize as one container
  7. Part 6: Deploy to Railway via CLI
  8. Part 7: GitHub Actions CI/CD
  9. Deferred items
  10. Q&A: side discussions
  11. Appendix: file inventory

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