Centralized AI API Management on Kubernetes

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To set up a centralized AI API management on Kubernetes, we would need to create a Kubernetes cluster and then deploy the necessary resources for API management. API management in a Kubernetes context usually involves deploying an API gateway that handles incoming requests and routes them to the appropriate services. It may also involve setting up authentication, rate-limiting, and metrics collection for the APIs being served.

The primary resources you would need are:
- A Kubernetes cluster, which you can either manage yourself or provision through a managed service like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), etc.
- An API gateway solution like Kong, Ambassador, or Apigee, deployed within your Kubernetes cluster.
- Optional components for observability (such as Prometheus for metrics collection and Grafana for visualization).

Below is a Pulumi program that demonstrates how to provision a managed Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform using GKE, deploy an API gateway (using the Kong ingress controller as an example), and set up a dummy service that would represent one of your AI APIs. Please note that adding a specific AI API management would require more details about what exactly the AI API does, how it is constructed, its dependencies, and how it needs to be exposed.

I'll walk you through the Pulumi program which sets up a basic GKE cluster and installs the Kong Ingress controller to manage your APIs:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp
from pulumi_kubernetes import Provider
from pulumi_kubernetes.helm.v3 import Chart, ChartOpts

# Create a GKE cluster
cluster = gcp.container.Cluster("ai-api-cluster",
  initial_node_count=3,
  node_config={
      "machineType": "n1-standard-1",
      "oauthScopes": [
          "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute",
          "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only",
          "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write",
          "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring"
      ],
  },
  min_master_version="latest"
)

# Configure Kubernetes provider to use the created cluster
k8s_provider = Provider("gke-k8s", kubeconfig=cluster.kubeconfig)

# Deploy Kong Ingress controller using Helm
kong = Chart("kong",
  ChartOpts(
    chart="kong",
    version="2.0.0",
    fetch_opts={"repo": "https://charts.konghq.com"},
    values={
      "ingressController": {
        "installCRDs": "false"  # On GKE, manually install CRDs if needed
      }
    },
  ),
  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider)
)

# Dummy service deployment to Kubernetes, this could be replaced with your actual AI API service
service = Chart("ai-api-service",
  ChartOpts(
    chart="my-ai-api",
    # Custom values for your AI API chart
    # This assumes you have a Helm chart for deploying your API
    # which might contain its Docker image, replicas, and other configurations
  ),
  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider)
)

# Export the Cluster name and the API service Endpoint
pulumi.export("cluster_name", cluster.name)
pulumi.export("service_endpoint", service.get_resource("v1/Service", "ai-api-service").status.apply(lambda s: s.load_balancer.ingress[0].ip))
```

This program performs the following actions:
- Creates a managed Kubernetes cluster on GCP with the specified node count and configuration.
- Sets up the Kubernetes provider to interact with the created cluster.
- Uses the Helm package manager to deploy the Kong Ingress controller within the Kubernetes cluster. Kong is a popular choice for managing APIs in a microservices architecture. It is responsible for routing and managing traffic to your services.
- Deploys a dummy service representing your AI APIs using a hypothetical Helm chart `my-ai-api`. You would replace this with the actual deployment configuration of your AI APIs.

Please note that actual deployment of AI APIs would need their container images and could also require additional configuration like environment variables, persistent volumes, secrets for sensitive data, etc.

You should also consider setting up monitoring and logging solutions within your cluster to keep an eye on your services' health and performance. Tools like Prometheus for monitoring and Fluentd/Elasticsearch/Kibana (EFK) or Loki/Grafana for logging and tracing are commonly used with Kubernetes.

Remember to replace `my-ai-api` with your actual Helm chart and fill in necessary custom values for your AI API service deployment.

Lastly, ensure to have Pulumi CLI configured with access to your GCP account and the Kubernetes cluster. Pulumi will use the credentials to create and manage resources on your behalf.