--- title: Configuring NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit With Docker Model... description: A hands-on tutorial showing how to configure NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit with Docker Model Runner (DMR) for local LLM inference, with a focus on adding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/configuring-nvidia-nemo-agent-toolkit-with-docker-model-runner-37fynladc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Configuring NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit With Docker Model Runner | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on tutorial showing how to configure NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit with Docker Model Runner (DMR) for local LLM inference, with a focus on adding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/configuring-nvidia-nemo-agent-toolkit-with-docker-model-runner-37fynladc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/37FYNlAdC.png og:image:alt: Configuring NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit With Docker Model Runner og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Configuring NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit With Docker Model Runner **[Cloud Native Now](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on tutorial showing how to configure NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit with Docker Model Runner (DMR) for local LLM inference, with a focus on adding observability to AI agents via OpenTelemetry tracing. Covers setting up DMR with the smollm2 model, configuring NeMo via YAML with a ReAct agent and Wikipedia search tool, and wiring up an OTel collector to capture spans from agent runs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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