Kubernetes-Operator

Building kukie-oven, a Go operator that turns one ServedModel into a PVC, a download Job and a vLLM Deployment — the reconcile order, two server-side-apply field managers, telling someone else’s object from a leftover, Helm and GHCR packaging, an EBS CSI role limited by a tag boundary, and the first real run on an L40S: Ready in 14 minutes 11 seconds with no manual step.

Why an external LLM API plan became a Helm add-on for users’ GPU clusters — quality and cost numbers behind the pivot, three layers split by required permissions, a chart with per-layer switches and a preflight job, the measurement-to-429 loop, an honest comparison with KubeAI and LiteLLM, and what is built versus still planned.