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Apr 2, 2026 · Cloud Native

How Kthena Enables Production‑Grade LLM Inference on Kubernetes

This article analyzes the cloud‑native challenges of deploying large‑model inference on Kubernetes and presents Kthena’s architecture—ModelServing, Router, Autoscaler, and ModelBooster—along with Volcano integration, vLLM‑Ascend setup, and a real‑world Qwen3‑235B deployment case, highlighting performance gains and future directions.