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Deliver AI platforms and applications quickly and easily

Mirantis k0rdent AI’s built-in AI PaaS layer integrates with the GPU PaaS and builds on Mirantis k0rdent Enterprise core functionality. It’s a unified platform for defining, deploying, and lifecycle managing AI/ML development, testing, and application hosting environments on Kubernetes, on bare metal, in clouds, and/or out to the edge.

Leveraging AI PaaS, cloud service providers (CSPs) are using k0rdent to swiftly engineer and deliver value-added AI services to customers. Enterprises are leveraging the same functionality to speed innovation: rolling out ready-to-use training and inference platforms to data scientists, data engineers, and developers, so they can innovate quickly and safely, without friction.



Features:

Move fast without risk: template-driven operations speed innovation, cut setup from months to days, and get new services online quickly.

Innovate without friction: assemble pre-validated, template-defined open source AI and k0rdent ecosystem partner-provided components into bespoke solutions quickly, with minimum skills required.

Unified lifecycle control: manage Kubernetes clusters and AI services in one platform, across bare metal, private, or hyperscaler clouds.

Secure and compliant: control where data and models reside and how tenants and users connect with them. Easily isolate tenants up and down the full stack. Automatically enforce policies everywhere from a single source of truth.

Operator friendly and self-service ready: configurable web UIs and catalogs for creating and consuming services impose guardrails while eliminating bottlenecks, letting your whole organization move faster with AI.

Observable and billable: built-in observability and fine-grained FinOps help track, allocate, and optimize performance, utilization, cost, and maximize upsides. 

AI PaaS Use Cases

TURNKEY TRAINING
TURNKEY INFERENCE
SELF-SERVICE PORTAL
INFERENCE MESH
MODEL REGISTRY

Turnkey Training for AI Factories on Kubernetes

Stand up governed, reusable training factories fast.

Turnkey Training in Mirantis k0rdent AI lets teams spin up approved stacks for data prep, notebooks, distributed training, evaluation, and promotion—tying model registry, lineage, and live telemetry into a continuous improvement loop. GPU-aware orchestration drives throughput; policy-as-code, audit trails, and multi-tenancy keep work compliant and secure; built-in observability and FinOps connect usage and cost to projects and models.

Neoclouds

Productize training workbenches: Publish curated templates (e.g., KubeRay, Slurm/Soperator, MLflow, model registry) so customers can fine-tune and train quickly.

Close the factory loop: Feed inference telemetry, quality, and cost signals back into data selection and evaluation to improve models each cycle.

Hit performance and cost targets: flexible, GPU-aware orchestration lets you serve more tenants with the same hardware and ensure that SLOs and cost objectives are met.

Monetize with confidence: Quotas/SLAs, per-hour or outcome-aligned pricing, and billing integrations turn commodity GPU rental into higher-margin services.


Enterprises

Accelerate from experiment to production: Self-service, governed environments connect to approved data, track lineage, and promote models through gated stages.

Operate safely at scale: Canary/A-B testing, rollback, and drift/latency telemetry feed targeted retraining; multi-tenancy protects teams on shared clusters.

Unify legacy & modern tooling: Run VM-dependent tools alongside containerized services under one Kubernetes-native framework.

Prove value & ensure compliance: Policy-as-code, audit logging, and per-project cost allocation provide accountability for leaders and regulators.

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EXECUTIVE BRIEF: Mirantis AI Factory Reference Architecture

Understand the role of the AI Factory and what’s inside a production-grade implementation.


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Turnkey Inference: Configure and lifecycle manage complete inference service stacks

Launch governed, scalable inference in minutes.

Turnkey Inference uses Mirantis k0rdent AI’s PaaS layer to stand up full AI serving platforms across data center, cloud, and edge. 

Platform engineers can assemble inference solutions from a fast-growing catalog of operations frameworks (e.g., Run.ai, KubeRay, Gcore and others), model servers (e.g. vLLM, Triton, KServe, RayServe, etc.), and adjunct components (e.g., vector DBs for RAG). They can wrap in observability and cost/billing analytics, define policies for geolocating data and models and routing traffic (Smart Routing).

Teams can then self-serve, build, and operate AI solutions within a fully-governed, business-ready framework.

Neoclouds

Productize differentiated, value-added services: Innovate quickly. Publish catalog templates (model servers, embeddings, vector stores, caching) as commercial offerings with quotas and SLAs.

Hit performance, latency, and cost targets: GPU-aware orchestration and topology management maps application requirements and traffic to capacity flexibly, ensuring SLOs are met.

Bill with confidence: Built-in metering and tenant attribution enable token/request-based billing and help you tune for profitability.

Keep tenants safe and compliant: k0rdent delivers hard multi-tenancy, policy enforcement, and supports Zero Trust up and down the stack. AI PaaS adds model lineage, promotion gates, MCP-based context governance, and other security and compliance features.

Enterprises

Ship faster, safely: Self-service, pre-approved stacks let teams access approved models, document stores, RAG databases, access control, and routing schemas, and promote endpoints to production with consistent guardrails.

Operate reliably: Declarative rollouts with canary/A/B and easy rollback standardize MLOps at scale.

See and control spend: Per-model observability and FinOps tie usage, performance, and cost to apps and teams.

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BLOG: AI Factories: What Are They and Who Needs Them?


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Self-Service Portal: Productize AI services with click-to-provision marketplaces

Launch branded, governed AI portals in minutes.

Mirantis k0rdent AI’s PaaS layer lets you stand up a branded marketplace (external or internal) where users discover services, view transparent pricing, and provision GPU, storage, and AI components with one click. Metering, billing, and cost controls are built in; policy guardrails, quotas, and approvals keep environments compliant. Unified observability provides real-time GPU utilization, performance, and health to resolve issues proactively and optimize spend.

Neoclouds

Monetize faster: Publish catalog offers (models, embeddings, vector stores, gateways) with tiers, quotas, and SLAs; eliminate sales friction with instant sign-up and automated invoicing.

Operate efficiently: Real-time utilization and health views drive capacity planning; GPU-aware placement protects latency and profitability.

Govern with confidence: Enforce tenant isolation, policy-as-code, and approval workflows across all services.


Enterprises

Unblock teams safely: Internal marketplace enables governed self-service for GPUs, storage, and AI stacks—reducing ticket queues and shadow IT.

Control cost & compliance: Fine-grained metering, budgets, and quotas tie usage to projects; policy guardrails and approvals maintain security and regulatory posture.

Reduce platform toil: Self-service and automation replace repetitive provisioning so platform teams focus on strategic work.

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Intelligent Inference Governance for AI Services on Kubernetes

Route, govern, and meter every AI request at scale.

k0rdent AI Inference Mesh is a certified, validated solution that enables organizations to monetize their infrastructure investments through governed, metered inference services. A policy-driven LLM router dispatches every request based on capability, latency, cost, and compliance policy. It automatically reserves premium GPU capacity for demanding workloads while routing simpler requests to cost-appropriate endpoints. Per-token metering, tenant isolation, and data residency enforcement provide the governance and auditability that regulated industries and sovereign deployments require, while unified observability across providers, models, and regions keeps operators in control of performance and margin.

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Neoclouds

Monetize inference capacity: Per-token metering with per-tenant, per-model, and per-region attribution turns raw GPU capacity into a billable, auditable service, enabling NeoClouds to move beyond commodity GPU rental into higher-margin, differentiated inference offerings.

Protect and maximize margin: Capability-aware request routing reserves premium hardware for workloads that require it, while KV-cache reuse and semantic caching reduce compute cost per token across the fleet.

Deliver multi-tenant reliability: Automatic fallback and load balancing across endpoints absorb provider outages and rate limits without surfacing errors to tenants, preserving SLA commitments at scale.

Expand into regulated markets: Data residency enforcement and per-request audit trails meet the governance requirements of government, financial services, and sovereign AI customers that require auditability and compliance controls beyond what standard GPU infrastructure provides.


Enterprises

Enforce compliance at every request: Data residency policies and geo-fencing rules are applied at the request level (not just the cluster boundary) ensuring sensitive workloads never reach non-compliant endpoints, with explainable rejections logged for audit.

Control costs and accountability: Token spend is metered inline and attributed per tenant, model, and region, eliminating manual cost reconciliation and giving FinOps and platform teams visibility into AI infrastructure spend.

Simplify multi-provider AI operations: A single OpenAI-compatible endpoint spans private GPU clusters, public cloud providers, and third-party model services, removing the complexity of managing separate integrations, credentials, and routing logic for each.

Maintain governance across regions: Federated routing with regional endpoint affinity keeps inference local by default, satisfying residency requirements while simultaneously improving latency and KV-cache efficiency across multi-region deployments.

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SOLUTION BRIEF: Unified Governance for Enterprise AI Inference

Learn how organizations can inspect, route, and audit every inference request across on-prem models and public AI services from a single point of control.

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Enterprise-Grade Model Management and Distribution

Store, version, and distribute AI models with enterprise-grade control.

k0rdent AI Model Registry is a certified, validated solution that enables organizations to host and distribute AI models on behalf of customer use cases, transforming model artifacts into production-ready assets. Model Registry provides a secure, private home for every base model, fine-tune, and quantized variant, with multi-region replication, formal versioning, and OCI-native packaging eliminating the fragile, manual workflows that make AI model distribution unreliable and operationally risky. RBAC, audit trails, and retention policies ensure every model artifact meets the governance and compliance requirements of regulated industries and sovereign deployments.

Neoclouds

Host and distribute models as a service: Publish and replicate curated, versioned model catalogs across regions on behalf of customers, enabling NeoClouds to offer private model hosting as a differentiated, higher-margin service beyond commodity GPU rental.

Eliminate cold-start penalties: Multi-region replication and streamed model loading ensure models are available where and when inference capacity needs them, cutting deployment delays from hours to minutes and protecting tenant SLAs.

Support diverse model formats: Organizations can easily onboard AI models from their existing sources and make them ready for governed storage, sharing, replication, and Kubernetes deployment without rebuilding their workflow around a single model format or toolchain.

Meet regulated customer requirements: RBAC, retention policies, and per-artifact audit trails give NeoClouds the governance controls needed to serve customers in financial services, government, and other regulated verticals that require documented chain of custody for every model in production.


Enterprises

Protect proprietary model assets: A secure, private registry ensures fine-tuned models trained on proprietary data never leave controlled infrastructure, giving enterprises full ownership and auditability over their most valuable AI assets.

Standardize model deployment workflows: Replace manual processes and one-off scripts with repeatable, consistent workflows that accelerate time to production with less operational risk.

Operate in air-gapped and edge environments: Multi-region replication and mirroring across Harbor instances support reliable model distribution into disconnected, edge, and sovereign deployments where dependency on public infrastructure is not an option.

Prove compliance and maintain audit readiness: Retention policies, deprecation windows, and RBAC controls provide the documented governance that regulated industries and internal compliance teams require across every model version in production.

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We see Mirantis as a strategic partner who can help us provide higher performance and greater success as we expand our cloud computing services internationally.

— Aurelio Forese, Head of Cloud, Netsons

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We see Mirantis as a strategic partner who can help us provide higher performance and greater success as we expand our cloud computing services internationally.

— Aurelio Forese, Head of Cloud, Netsons

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FAQ

AI PaaS (Artificial Intelligence Platform as a Service) is a neo-platform as a service model that helps organizations adopt AI faster by providing ready-to-use AI capabilities. It typically bundles the products and services needed to develop, deploy, and manage AI applications in a streamlined way.