AZ486721 - Public Preview: Default Inference with vLLM with AI Toolchain Operator Add-on

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Published

Apr 2, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • April 2025
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Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

By default, the AI toolchain operator add-on now deploys model inferencing workloads using the high-throughput vLLM serving engine. vLLM offers a significant speed-up to process incoming requests and flexibility to use OpenAI-compatible APIs, DeepSeek R1 models, and a range of pre-trained HuggingFace models. Alternatively, you can switch from vLLM to HuggingFace Transformers for KAITO inference deployments at any time. 

 

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