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vLLM Production Stack

A reference system for Kubernetes-native cluster deployment and community-driven performance optimization for vLLM.

Detailed Introduction

vLLM Production Stack is a production-oriented reference system designed to provide Kubernetes-native cluster deployment patterns and community-driven performance optimizations for vLLM. It combines container orchestration, scheduling strategies, GPU resource management, inference service composition, and monitoring to help teams reliably run vLLM-based models in production.

Main Features

  • Kubernetes-native deployment with Helm/Operator integration.
  • Performance tuning and scheduling recommendations for inference workloads to optimize GPU utilization and I/O.
  • Monitoring, logging, and metrics collection for capacity planning and troubleshooting.
  • Community-driven best practices to enable reuse and scaling across different cluster sizes.

Use Cases

Suitable for running large-model inference on Kubernetes clusters, including online low-latency inference, batch processing, and concurrent model serving. It is especially useful for teams that want to operate vLLM as a cluster service and require fine-grained control over GPU resources and performance.

Technical Features

  • Built on containerization and Kubernetes primitives (scheduling, CSI, Operator) for extensibility.
  • System-level optimizations focused on inference latency and throughput, including multi-instance GPU sharing and memory/I/O strategies.
  • Integrates with existing monitoring and logging systems to support metrics-driven autoscaling and performance forensics.
vLLM Production Stack
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🚀 Deployment 🔮 Inference 🌱 Open Source 📁 Project