# Under the hood of a deploy-agent API that works across any runtime environment

DevFeed: [Under the hood of a deploy-agent API that works across any runtime environment](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/under-the-hood-of-a-deploy-agent-api-that-works-across-any-runtime-environment-5191.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/deploy-agent-api-xpander>)

Author: Ran Sheinberg

Published: 2025-10-27T16:13:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>)

Tags: [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes xpander.ai's deploy-agent API, which gives cloud and self-deployed AI agent runtimes one deployment interface. It routes image uploads differently by environment, using presigned S3 uploads for cloud deployments and local registry uploads for self-deployed environments.

## Source excerpt

When we started building xpander.ai's agent platform, one of our core promises to enterprise customers was freedom of deployment. Some wanted to run agents entirely inside xpander cloud, using our managed infrastructure. Others needed to host agents on their own Kubernetes cluste...