vllm-project/production-stack

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vLLM Production Stack is a reference implementation for deploying vLLM LLM inference at scale on Kubernetes, distributed via Helm charts. It adds a request router with KV-cache-aware, prefix-aware, and load-aware routing, plus KV cache offloading via LMCache and Prometheus-based monitoring.

Use cases

• deploy vllm on kubernetes
• scale llm inference across multiple gpu nodes
• route llm requests with kv cache aware load balancing
• share kv cache across vllm instances with lmcach
• deploy openai-compatible llm api on aws or gcp
• monitor vllm inference metrics with prometheus
• set up disaggregated prefill for llm serving
• enable tool calling for llama models in production

When to choose

• you already use vLLM and need cluster-wide, multi-replica deployment on Kubernetes
• you want smart request routing (prefix/KV-cache/load aware) across vLLM instances
• you need KV cache offloading and sharing to improve throughput and fault tolerance
• you want an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint with built-in monitoring and autoscaling

When to avoid

• you only need a single vLLM instance on one machine without Kubernetes
• you use a different inference engine like TGI, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM
• you cannot run a Kubernetes cluster or Helm
• you need a fully managed LLM API rather than self-hosted serving

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llm-inference deployment monitoring caching container-orchestration infrastructure-as-code api-framework benchmarking tracing large-language-models artificial-intelligence cloud-computing self-hosted microservices python cloud self-hosted vllm helm-chart kv-cache lmcache request-routing openai-compatible-api llm-serving inference-serving load-balancing prefix-caching devops containers kubernetes docker gpu linux

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