KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

In this session, we talk about Cloudera AI Inference Service, a secure, large scale platform for generative AI and predictive inference workloads, built using state of the art Kubernetes, CNCF and Apache open source projects. We take the audience through our journey in building this platform and share the experiences we gained along the way. The platform is built using openness, security, scalability, performance and standards compliance as guiding principles. We demonstrate that it is possible to be open and secure at the same time, and that organizations can incorporate production grade AI inferencing into their Big Data environments. This session will cover the architecture of the platform, and explain how we handle performance, scaling, authentication, fine grained authorization and audit logging, all of which are critical considerations for production inferencing.