Diagram of a Kubernetes cluster routing inference requests across GPU nodes to multiple model replicas.

Kubernetes for AI Inference: Serving Models at Production Scale

Kubernetes has quietly become the de facto control plane for production AI inference. This post walks through the architecture, the GPU plumbing, and the patterns teams use to serve models that actually meet SLOs.

September 5, 2026 · 9 min · 1894 words · martinuke0
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