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Engineering notes from operating open infrastructure: the failures, design decisions, and upstream work that make open infrastructure better.

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GPUsAugust 31, 2026

AI Networking: What GPU Infrastructure Really Requires

Learn how AI workloads change network design across GPU clusters, storage, east-west traffic, RDMA/RoCE, Kubernetes placement, and production inference.

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GPUsAugust 31, 2026

The Overall Picture: Building Production-Oriented GPU Infrastructure With Atmosphere

Booting a GPU server isn't the same as making it production-ready. How Atmosphere unifies OpenStack, Ironic, and Kubernetes to turn H200 hardware into recoverable, reusable AI infrastructure.

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GPUsAugust 27, 2026

AI Infrastructure: VMs vs Bare Metal vs Kubernetes vs Managed Inference

Compare GPU VMs, bare metal, Kubernetes, and managed inference for AI workloads. Learn which architecture fits your performance, control, scaling, and operational needs.

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Updating OpenStack can be complex due to its intricate architecture, interdependencies, customisation, data migration challenges, the need for minimal downtime, extensive testing requirements, sometimes outdated documentation, resource demands, the necessity for skilled personnel, and frequent release cycles.
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