LLMOps & MLOps
What changes operationally when the artifact is a model, and what does not.
Who this is for
Platform, DevOps, and SRE engineers running AI workloads on a rota.
What you should be able to do
Operate a model in production with drift detection, evaluation gates, and a retraining path.
The delivery flow
The order the work actually happens in. Each step is where a decision gets made and written down, not a chapter heading.
- CI + eval gate
- Model registry
- Deployment strategy
- Serving + autoscale
- Telemetry
- Drift detection
- Retraining trigger
- Rollback
Reading path
9 published guides on this track. Every one is a live page on this site — nothing here is a placeholder.
- MLOps in 2026: Monitoring, Drift Detection, and Automated Retraining
- DevOps vs SRE: Key Differences Explained [2026 Guide]
- LLMOps vs MLOps: What's the Difference? [2026 Guide]
- 50 DevOps Interview Questions for Senior Engineers
- CI/CD Pipeline Best Practices for Cloud Teams
- DevOps & DevSecOps Training for African Cloud Professionals — Citadel Cloud Management
- DevOps Engineer Salary Guide 2026: By Country, Experience, and Certification
- DevOps Roadmap 2026 — Complete Learning Path
- What Is DevOps? Everything You Need to Know [2026]
Reference implementations
Citadel’s open-source repositories for this track — Terraform modules, MCP servers, and reference architectures you can read, fork, and run. Apache/MIT licensed; check each repository for its terms.
- GitHubdevops-templates-productionProduction-ready DevOps templates: GitHub Actions CI/CD, Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, Docker configs, monitoring.devops-templates-production on github.com (external site, opens in a new tab)
- GitHubmcp-server-devopsMCP server for DevOps operations - Docker, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraformmcp-server-devops on github.com (external site, opens in a new tab)
- GitHubterraform-aws-auto-healing-eksSelf-healing EKS cluster with Karpenter autoscaling, node health monitoring, and automatic remediationterraform-aws-auto-healing-eks on github.com (external site, opens in a new tab)
Primary sources
The standards, framework documents, and vendor references this track is built against. Go here when you need the authoritative wording rather than a summary — in a security review or an audit, the source is what counts.
- MLflow documentation (external site, opens in a new tab)
- Kubeflow documentation (external site, opens in a new tab)
- OpenTelemetry documentation (external site, opens in a new tab)
- Google SRE Book (external site, opens in a new tab)
- Prometheus documentation (external site, opens in a new tab)
- Ray Serve for model serving (external site, opens in a new tab)