Elastic Kubernetes Service (VKS)

Managed Kubernetes for GPU workloads — GPU labels, RDMA, persistent volumes, service publishing

Virtual Kubernetes Service (VKS) is the managed Kubernetes offering on Alaya NeW Cloud, with first-class support for GPU scheduling, cross-node RDMA, shared / dynamic storage, and service publishing — so training and inference workloads consume GPU on demand.

Capabilities

GPU resources — H800 / L40S and more, requested by label, with CPU and memory pre-sized to GPU count.
Cross-node RDMA — IB / RoCE built in, enabled with one line rdma/rdma_shared_device_a in your YAML.
Persistent storage — shared static PVCs across accounts plus on-demand dynamic PVCs; underlying NAS / block details are abstracted away.
Service publishing — built-in ServiceExporter auto-mints a public domain; no separate load balancer needed.
Multi-tenancy — primary-account-driven authorization, with per-user parallelism and consumption rules on dedicated clusters.

Learning path

Concepts

Pod, Workload, Service, PVC, Namespace — quick reference

Authorize VKS

Primary account grants access to team members

Use the cluster

Download kubeconfig and connect in 5 minutes

Cluster detail

Resource management, scaling, parallelism and consumption rules

GPU resources

GPU model table and YAML request examples

Cross-node RDMA

Enable high-performance networking inside Pods

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim

Static and dynamic PVC declarations and mounts

Create a container

Pod and Deployment templates

Create a service

Expose and access workloads inside the cluster

Publish a service

Push services to the public network with ServiceExporter

Advanced recipes

Common extensions on top of VKS — full guides live in the Cookbook:

Remote development SSH · VS Code in browser · Jupyter · Dev Containers · DevPod
HPC scheduling Slurm on VKS
Package management Helm essentials

VKS vs CCI

CCI is for single-container ad-hoc workloads. VKS is for multi-container, multi-service orchestration. They share the same underlying GPU pool and can be combined.