The outcome
Maintain availability and cost control while changing model code, weights, or infrastructure.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Measure request concurrency, queueing, GPU utilization, latency, cold starts, and error rates across representative traffic windows.
- 02
Configure deployment replica bounds and request targets together with compatible worker-node autoscaling and availability needs.
- 03
Deploy the candidate as a new version and run smoke, load, failure, output-regression, and permission tests before traffic moves.
- 04
Shift traffic through the supported rollout mechanism while monitoring health, capacity, latency, errors, quality, and cloud cost.
- 05
Roll back immediately when thresholds fail; otherwise retire obsolete versions and review minimum replicas and idle resources.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Tune replicas and nodes together.
- Define abort thresholds before rollout.
- Rehearse rollback before production changes.
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