The outcome

Serve real users without exposing a development tunnel, cross-user state, unbounded model capacity, or secrets embedded in the browser application.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define users, identity, roles, inputs and outputs, model or API boundary, secrets, state, concurrency, latency, cancellation, files, abuse controls, SLO, hosting, and rollback.

  2. 02

    Pin Python, Gradio and model dependencies in a minimal image, run as a non-root identity, keep credentials in server secret storage, and separate temporary, cache, model, and application directories.

  3. 03

    Use typed components and server-side validation, isolate user sessions, bound queue and concurrency, set timeouts and upload limits, handle cancellation and retries, and return safe display values rather than raw paths.

  4. 04

    Place the app behind TLS and production identity with authorization, CSRF and origin controls, request and rate limits, network restrictions, redacted logs, health checks, and resource monitoring.

  5. 05

    Test concurrent users, state isolation, malformed files, slow and failed models, disconnects, exhaustion, restart and upgrade, then canary a pinned image and retain the prior deployment for rollback.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Use production identity at the edge.
  • Bound queues and model concurrency.
  • Keep session state isolated.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.