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Oct 24, 2026 · Operations

High Availability for LLM Inference: Health Checks, Warmup, Failover & Degradation

This article details a production-grade high-availability framework for vLLM-based LLM inference services on Kubernetes, covering layered health checks, multi-level model warmup, automated failover, degradation strategies, metrics-driven alerting, and troubleshooting patterns derived from real incidents.