Platform-Engineering

The community MLflow chart is great for a demo and useless for production. It knows nothing about your Key Vault, your Workload Identity, your Traefik ingress, or your certs. Here is the layered Helm pattern I run instead, where the open source chart stays untouched and your cloud specifics live in a thin layer on top. Plus the one missing package that breaks Workload Identity on day one.

Azure AI Foundry is amazing until you have to manage it for more than one team. Here is how LiteLLM became the gateway that fixed my key sprawl, capped everyone’s spend, and turned key rotation from a fire drill into a thirty second job.