To help you deploy your agent to LiveKit Cloud smoothly, here are some friendly best practices to follow: 1. Set Up Prerequisites: First, make sure you have the LiveKit CLI (v2.5 or later) installed and a LiveKit Cloud project ready to go. 2. Authenticate: Next, use

lk cloud auth

to authenticate the CLI, and set your default project with

lk project set-default "<project-name>"

. This helps keep things organized. 3. Deploy the Agent: Head over to your project directory and run

lk agent create

. This will register your agent, build a Docker image, and deploy it for you. 4. Manage Secrets: To keep your environment variables like

LIVEKIT_API_KEY

and

LIVEKIT_API_SECRET

safe, use the

--secrets-file

or

--secrets

flags when deploying. 5. Monitor and Update: You can keep an eye on how things are running with

lk agent status

and

lk agent logs

. When you need to update, simply use

lk agent deploy

, and if anything goes sideways,

lk agent rollback

is there to help. 6. Optimize Deployment: For better performance, consider deploying to specific regions using

--regions

to reduce latency. Also, it’s a good idea to keep development and production environments separate. LiveKit Cloud takes care of elastic scaling, load balancing, and session management automatically, so you can focus on what matters most. If you’d like, I’m here to help with any of these steps or answer any questions you have!