Chapter 4. Developer Preview features
This section describes Developer Preview features in Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.11. 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.
- 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.
