helm-kserve

A Crossplane configuration that deploys KServe via Helm.

KServe is a standardized serverless ML inference platform on Kubernetes, built for highly scalable predictive and generative AI use cases. It provides a simple, pluggable, and complete solution for production ML serving.

Prerequisites

KServe requires either:

• Knative Serving (for Serverless mode)
• Istio or another service mesh (for Standard/RawDeployment modes)

Install KServe CRDs first:

helm install kserve-crd oci://ghcr.io/kserve/charts/kserve-crd --version v0.16.0

Quick Start

apiVersion: helm.hops.ops.com.ai/v1alpha1
kind: KServe
metadata:
  name: kserve
  namespace: my-namespace
spec:
  clusterName: my-cluster

Configuration

Field	Description	Default
clusterName	Name of the Kubernetes cluster	Required
namespace	Namespace to deploy KServe	kserve
releaseName	Helm release name	XR name
deploymentMode	KServe deployment mode	Serverless
labels	Labels to apply to resources	See below
values	Helm values (merged with defaults)	{}
overrideAllValues	Replace all default values	{}
providerConfigRef	Provider config reference	{name: clusterName, kind: ProviderConfig}
managementPolicies	Crossplane management policies	["*"]

Deployment Modes

Mode	Description
Serverless	Uses Knative for scale-to-zero and autoscaling (default)
RawDeployment	Direct Kubernetes deployments without Knative
Standard	Kubernetes deployments with Istio gateway

Default Labels

hops.ops.com.ai/managed: "true"
hops.ops.com.ai/kserve: "<name>"

Examples

Minimal (Serverless mode)

apiVersion: helm.hops.ops.com.ai/v1alpha1
kind: KServe
metadata:
  name: kserve
  namespace: example-env
spec:
  clusterName: example-cluster

RawDeployment Mode

apiVersion: helm.hops.ops.com.ai/v1alpha1
kind: KServe
metadata:
  name: kserve
  namespace: example-env
spec:
  clusterName: example-cluster
  deploymentMode: RawDeployment
  labels:
    team: ml-platform
    environment: production

Standard Mode with Istio

apiVersion: helm.hops.ops.com.ai/v1alpha1
kind: KServe
metadata:
  name: kserve
  namespace: example-env
spec:
  clusterName: example-cluster
  deploymentMode: Standard
  values:
    kserve:
      controller:
        gateway:
          ingressGateway:
            className: istio

Development

# Build the package
make build

# Render examples
make render

# Validate examples
make validate

# Run unit tests
make test

# Run E2E tests
make e2e

Chart Information

• Chart: kserve
• Repository: oci://ghcr.io/kserve/charts
• Version: v0.16.0