Orchestrating AI Model Serving with Kubernetes

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Orchestrating AI model serving using Kubernetes involves deploying your model as a service within a Kubernetes cluster so that it can receive HTTP requests, process them, and return predictions. In terms of Pulumi and infrastructure as code, you would typically define a Kubernetes `Deployment` to manage the pods running your AI model containers and a `Service` to expose them to the network.

Here’s a breakdown of the main resources we'll define in our Pulumi program:
1. **Kubernetes Deployment**: This resource will allow us to deploy our AI model in a containerized environment. Each deployment will manage pods based on a Docker image of your AI model.
2. **Kubernetes Service**: Once the model is deployed, we'll need a way to access it. A Kubernetes Service provides a stable endpoint that can be used to send requests to a running AI model.
3. **Kubernetes Namespace**: Although not strictly necessary, using a Namespace helps to organize resources within your Kubernetes cluster.

Below is a Pulumi Python program that outlines the key components for orchestrating AI model serving with Kubernetes:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_kubernetes as kubernetes

# Define the Kubernetes namespace to help organize resources within the cluster
namespace = kubernetes.core.v1.Namespace("ai-model-namespace",
    metadata={"name": "ai-model-serving"},
)

# Define the Kubernetes deployment for the AI model serving
deployment = kubernetes.apps.v1.Deployment("ai-model-deployment",
    metadata={
        "namespace": namespace.metadata["name"],
    },
    spec={
        "selector": {"matchLabels": {"app": "ai-model-serving"}},
        "replicas": 2, # specifies the number of desired replicas
        "template": {
            "metadata": {"labels": {"app": "ai-model-serving"}},
            "spec": {
                "containers": [{
                    "name": "ai-model-container", # name of the container
                    "image": "your-docker-image:latest", # replace with your image
                    "ports": [{"containerPort": 80}], # the port your app is listening on
                }],
            },
        },
    })

# Define a Kubernetes service to expose the AI model serving to the network
service = kubernetes.core.v1.Service("ai-model-service",
    metadata={
        "namespace": namespace.metadata["name"],
    },
    spec={
        "type": "LoadBalancer", # exposes the service externally using a load balancer
        "selector": {"app": "ai-model-serving"},
        "ports": [{"port": 80}], # external port (port which the LB will forward to)
    })

# Export the endpoint of the AI model serving
endpoint = pulumi.Output.all(service.status["load_balancer"], service.spec["ports"]).apply(lambda args: f"http://{args[0]['ingress'][0]['ip']}:{args[1][0]['port']}/")
pulumi.export("ai_model_serving_endpoint", endpoint)
```

In the program above:
- Replace `your-docker-image:latest` with the Docker image of your AI model.
- The `ai-model-deployment` is used to create the desired state of our application which includes the number of replicas and the Docker image to use.
- The `ai-model-service` resource defines how we expose our AI model deployment as a network service. We're using a `type: LoadBalancer` which is suitable for distributing internet traffic to our model containers.
- We export the `endpoint`, which is a concatenation of the service's IP and the port we defined, allowing us to interact with our AI model serving from outside the Kubernetes cluster.

Remember, you will need a Kubernetes cluster set up with appropriate permissions and `kubectl` configured locally or wherever you are running Pulumi. Also, ensure that your Pulumi stack is set up correctly to work with your Kubernetes cluster.