Self-hosted model operations
Cloud-Managed Model Compute Runbook
Use managed cloud compute as a replaceable deployment adapter while preserving exact model identity, tenant authority, evaluation, cost, telemetry, and recovery evidence.
- Format
- Playbook
- Level
- Advanced
- Audience
- Developer, Operator, Leader
- Owner
- Project42 Editorial
- Review cadence
- Every 45 days
- Prerequisites
- An authorized cloud account, region, quota, network, identity, and cost owner; An approved model, runtime option, workload, and data-classification decision; Service, evaluation, capacity, telemetry, rollback, and incident requirements
Preserve a portable service contract
Managed compute can delegate accelerator provisioning, image staging, endpoint hosting, metrics, and some scaling or patching work, but the operator still owns the workload claim, model and license decision, identity and authorization, data and network boundary, representative evaluation, capacity and cost limits, release disposition, recovery, and provider exit. Write the stable request, response, error, streaming, identity, and overload contract before choosing an adapter.
Record the cloud account and project boundary privately, while public and reusable evidence names only configuration fields. Pin the model revision or deployment artifact, runtime or template, region, deployment type, capacity, endpoint contract, authentication mode, network policy, content or safety configuration, application adapter, evaluation version, and release time. A deployment name is an operational handle, not sufficient build identity.
Qualify quota, cost, telemetry, and failure behavior
Use the real gateway and authentication path to test routine, boundary, unauthorized, malformed, timeout, overload, dependency, and recovery cases. Measure latency and first-output distributions, throughput, rejection, model or accelerator saturation where available, warm-up, replica or instance behavior, quota, and attributable cost. Treat portal success and one playground response as smoke evidence only.
Export or reproduce the service contract, evaluation cases, adapter configuration, dashboards, alerts, cost assumptions, and recovery procedure outside a single portal. Verify identity revocation, network denial, telemetry loss, capacity exhaustion, candidate rollback, and the documented alternative route. Date or link volatile region, capacity, price, model, and lifecycle claims to the current provider documentation.
Task: [CLOUD-MANAGED MODEL-SERVICE WORKLOAD]
Scope: [TENANT/ACCOUNT, PROJECT, REGION, USERS, DATA, NETWORK, APPLICATION, AND SERVICE OBJECTIVES]
Permissions: [MODEL/LICENSE, SUBSCRIPTION, MARKETPLACE, QUOTA, DEPLOY, IDENTITY, NETWORK, AND RELEASE AUTHORITY]
Exact build: [MODEL REVISION, RUNTIME/TEMPLATE, DEPLOYMENT TYPE, REGION, CAPACITY, POLICY, ADAPTER, CONFIG, AND EVAL]
Endpoint contract: [AUTH, ROUTE, REQUEST, RESPONSE, STREAM, ERROR, LIMIT, IDENTITY, AND OVERLOAD]
Cost and capacity: [INSTANCE/USAGE, QUOTA, CONCURRENCY, TOKENS, LATENCY, REJECTION, BUDGET, AND ALERT]
Verification: [IDENTITY, NEGATIVE ACCESS, REPRESENTATIVE EVAL, LOAD, QUOTA, COST, TELEMETRY LOSS, ROLLBACK, AND EXIT]
Stop conditions: [UNAUTHORIZED TENANT/REGION, ARTIFACT DRIFT, DATA VIOLATION, CRITICAL EVAL FAILURE, QUOTA/COST LIMIT, OR FAILED RECOVERY]
Recovery: [STOP/ROUTE TRAFFIC, REVOKE ACCESS, RECONCILE WORK, RESTORE KNOWN-GOOD DEPLOYMENT OR APPROVED ALTERNATIVE, VERIFY]Expected evidence and verification
Expected evidence includes authorization and role boundaries, model and license decision, exact deployment manifest, endpoint and network contract, negative access tests, representative evaluation, load and quota results, dated cost assumptions, correlated telemetry and alerts, rollback and alternative-route rehearsal, owners, residual risks, and review date. Keep environment identifiers, billing details, keys, and endpoint secrets in private operations records.
Stop admission when the deployment lands in an unauthorized boundary, artifact or policy identity drifts, protected data crosses its allowed boundary, a critical evaluation fails, quota or cost exceeds its decision, telemetry cannot support safe operation, or recovery is unavailable. Revoke or isolate the affected path, reconcile in-flight and external effects, restore the verified deployment or approved adapter, and repeat identity, access, quality, load, cost, and telemetry checks.