Welcome

Introduction

The Nutanix Cloud Native & AI (NAI) Unofficial Field Guide

This site follows Design > Size > Deploy model.

Warning

Status: This site is unofficial, unsupported, rigourously tested and frequently updated.

This community-maintained resource provides a practical, Design > Size > Deploy framework for architects and engineers looking to harness the power of Nutanix for modern workloads(including AI). While unofficial and unsupported, this site is actively maintained to bridge the gap between high-level documentation and real-world implementation.

What’s Inside:

Infrastructure Design: Architectural deep dives into Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), and GPT-in-a-Box.
Rapid Deployment: Step-by-step tutorials to stand up Nutanix clusters, NKP, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in record time.
Advanced Scenarios: Comprehensive guides for air-gapped environments, CI/CD pipelines, and NDB (Nutanix Database Service) integration.
Interactive Simulators: Visual tools for LLM model selection, pod scheduling, and K8s deployment strategies.
Developer-First: Built entirely in Markdown—if you find a bug or a better way to do things, the repo is open for PRs.

Design Infra, K8S and AI Apps

AI Apps Design on Nutanix

Start here to read about gathering requirements and considering general design considerations.

Start designing

Start sizing

Deploy Infra

Set up Nutanix Cluster in an hour

You can setup a Nutanix cluster in under an hour using Foundation to prepare your infrastructure.

Setup a Nutanix cluster

Deploy Prism Central

Deploy K8S

Set up Nutanix Kubernetes Platform [ NKP ] in 10 minutes

Setup a Nutanix NKP K8S cluster to deploy your workloads.

Setup Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

Set up NKP Advanced

Customize what NKP components to deploy

Setup Customized NKP
Setup NKP Air-Gapped

Setup NKP on air-gapped cluster

Air-gapped Install

Deploy AI Apps

Set up Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) in 60 minutes

Install and host an LLM on Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) platform.

Start

Set up LLM with RAG on Nutanix in 10 minutes - soon to be deprecated

Install and host a LLM on Nutanix platform using this framework in this repo. Get up and running in minutes.

This site will also take you through implementation using NKE clusters and GPT-in-a-Box v1 NVD Reference App.

Start

Others

It's just Markdown

Everything is this site is written in .md file. When you see something in this repo, say something by submitting a PR.

We review PR on a day-to-day basis.

Contributing

Nutanix components used in this project

Open Source Tools used in this projects

Appendix

Baremetal servers ... huh?