As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, deploying AI-powered applications efficiently and at scale has become critical. Kubernetes, the de facto orchestration platform, plays a crucial role in managing containerized AI workloads, ensuring scalability, resilience, and ease of management. 

In this article, we explore DeepSeek on Kubernetes, a deployment that integrates DeepSeek-R1, a powerful reasoning AI model, with Open WebUI for seamless interaction.