Multi-Tenant LLM Hosting

Host many teams/customers on shared inference infrastructure without sacrificing security, performance, or cost governance.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes cluster with GPU node pools
• API gateway or LLM gateway (LiteLLM, Envoy, Kong)
• Prometheus + Grafana for per-tenant observability
• Redis or equivalent for rate limiting state
• Billing system or cost attribution database

Isolation Model

• Strong tenant identity on every request
• Per-tenant API keys and scoped model access
• Namespace or workload isolation for high-risk tenants
• Strict data retention and log partitioning controls

vLLM Multi-Model Serving

# vllm-deployment.yaml - Multi-model serving with vLLM
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: vllm-gpt4o-equivalent
  namespace: llm-serving
  labels:
    app: vllm
    model-tier: premium
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: vllm
      model-tier: premium
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: vllm
        model-tier: premium
      annotations:
        prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
        prometheus.io/port: "8080"
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: vllm
          image: vllm/vllm-openai:v0.4.1
          args:
            - "--model=/models/llama-3.1-70b"
            - "--tensor-parallel-size=2"
            - "--max-model-len=8192"
            - "--gpu-memory-utilization=0.90"
            - "--max-num-seqs=128"
            - "--enable-prefix-caching"
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
              name: inference
            - containerPort: 8080
              name: metrics
          resources:
            requests:
              nvidia.com/gpu: 2
              cpu: "8"
              memory: "64Gi"
            limits:
              nvidia.com/gpu: 2
              cpu: "16"
              memory: "128Gi"
          volumeMounts:
            - name: model-weights
              mountPath: /models
              readOnly: true
      volumes:
        - name: model-weights
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: premium-model-weights
      tolerations:
        - key: nvidia.com/gpu
          operator: Exists
          effect: NoSchedule
      nodeSelector:
        gpu-type: a100
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: vllm-economy
  namespace: llm-serving
  labels:
    app: vllm
    model-tier: economy
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: vllm
      model-tier: economy
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: vllm
        model-tier: economy
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: vllm
          image: vllm/vllm-openai:v0.4.1
          args:
            - "--model=/models/llama-3.1-8b"
            - "--max-model-len=4096"
            - "--gpu-memory-utilization=0.85"
            - "--max-num-seqs=256"
            - "--enable-prefix-caching"
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
              name: inference
            - containerPort: 8080
              name: metrics
          resources:
            requests:
              nvidia.com/gpu: 1
              cpu: "4"
              memory: "32Gi"
            limits:
              nvidia.com/gpu: 1
              cpu: "8"
              memory: "64Gi"
          volumeMounts:
            - name: model-weights
              mountPath: /models
              readOnly: true
      volumes:
        - name: model-weights
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: economy-model-weights
      tolerations:
        - key: nvidia.com/gpu
          operator: Exists
          effect: NoSchedule

Per-Tenant Quota Configuration

# tenant-quotas-configmap.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: tenant-quotas
  namespace: llm-serving
data:
  quotas.yaml: |
    tenants:
      acme-corp:
        tier: enterprise
        models_allowed:
          - llama-3.1-70b
          - llama-3.1-8b
          - nomic-embed-text
        rate_limits:
          requests_per_minute: 300
          tokens_per_minute: 500000
          concurrent_requests: 50
        budget:
          daily_limit_usd: 500.00
          monthly_limit_usd: 10000.00
          alert_threshold_percent: 80
        priority: high

      startup-xyz:
        tier: standard
        models_allowed:
          - llama-3.1-8b
          - nomic-embed-text
        rate_limits:
          requests_per_minute: 60
          tokens_per_minute: 100000
          concurrent_requests: 10
        budget:

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