Chapter 4. Developer Preview features
This section describes Developer Preview features in Red Hat OpenShift AI.
Developer Preview features are not supported by Red Hat in any way and are not functionally complete or production-ready. Do not use Developer Preview features for production or business-critical workloads. Developer Preview features provide early access to functionality in advance of possible inclusion in a Red Hat product offering. Customers can use these features to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. Developer Preview features might not have any documentation, are subject to change or removal at any time, and have received limited testing. Red Hat might provide ways to submit feedback on Developer Preview features without an associated SLA.
For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Developer Preview features, see Developer Preview Support Scope.
- Support for AMD GPUs
- The AMD ROCm workbench image adds support for the AMD graphics processing units (GPU) Operator, significantly boosting the processing performance for compute-intensive activities. This provides you with access to drivers, development tools, and APIs that support AI workloads and a wide range of models. Additionally, the AMD ROCm workbench image includes machine learning libraries to support AI frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. The Developer Preview release also enables access to images that can be used to explore serving and training/tuning use cases with AMD GPUs. For more information, see Using AMD GPUs with workbenches in OpenShift AI.
- KServe Modelcars
The KServe component of OpenShift AI includes Modelcars as a Developer Preview feature. The Modelcars feature streamlines model fetching by using Open Container Initiative (OCI) images that contain your model data. This behavior can decrease startup times for large models, reduce disk space usage, and enhance performance.
The Modelcars feature is not enabled by default. You must modify your KServe configuration to use the feature.
For more information, see Serving models with OCI images in the KServe documentation and the Enhancing KServe Model Fetching with Modelcars design document.
- Support for AppWrapper in Kueue
- AppWrapper support in Kueue is available as a Developer Preview feature. The experimental API enables the use of AppWrapper-based workloads with the distributed workloads feature.
