Packaging models: images, weights and fast startup
Where model weights should live: baked into the image, downloaded at start, or mounted from a shared volume. Image hygiene, registries, PVC and object-store caching, init containers, pre-pulling, integrity checks and the startup-time budget.
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A pod that takes eleven minutes to become Ready is not a scaling problem you can fix with a cleverer autoscaler. It is a packaging problem. This lesson is about getting engine code and model weights onto a GPU node quickly, reproducibly and cheaply.
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