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Zero-Downtime LLM Inference on Kubernetes Spot Instances (~70% GPU Cost Savings)
Community description: Self-hosting open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama 3, DeepSeek, or Mistral on dedicated...
Dev.to | Nov 8, 2026 | riyankhamdani
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Runs strictly on nodes labeled node-type: spot. When the node drain fires, Kubernetes rejects simultaneous evictions. Inference workloads use preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution to prioritize Spot instances during standard scheduling cycles, but fall back seamlessly to On-Demand nodes when Spot capacity is exhausted.
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