Customer-operated runtime
Place selected runtime services on customer-managed Kubernetes or supported compute, with customer-defined node, storage, availability, and capacity controls.
Private and on-premises AI agents
Run AI agents within customer-operated infrastructure boundaries
BlueBear private deployment patterns combine customer-operated Kubernetes or supported compute, private data and integration paths, approved model endpoints or self-hosted inference, and an explicit plan for updates, evidence, and support.
Assess a private deployment Compare with BYOCPrivate does not automatically mean isolated—or operable
A private deployment is defined by actual identity, network, software-supply-chain, telemetry, model, data, and support paths. Running containers on customer hardware is only one part. Teams also need a safe way to provision, update, observe, recover, investigate, and eventually remove the platform.
Core capabilities
Restricted network paths
Use private routing, enterprise DNS, proxies, allowlisted egress, internal load balancers, and customer security controls to limit reachable systems and external dependencies.
Private model options
Connect to approved private model endpoints or self-hosted inference such as vLLM when hardware, model licensing, latency, quality, and operational requirements support it.
Local secret custody
Integrate with the customer-selected secret and key system, then scope access to specific workloads, integrations, operators, and rotation procedures.
Controlled software updates
Define image sources, artifact verification, vulnerability handling, configuration promotion, maintenance windows, rollback, and emergency patch procedures.
Local evidence and support
Choose where telemetry and audit evidence stay, what can leave the environment, how support receives diagnostic information, and how sensitive data is removed from it.
Prove the operating model before production
Private infrastructure shifts more responsibility to the customer. The design has to cover the full lifecycle, not only initial installation.
Step 1
Inventory required dependencies
List identity, DNS, certificates, registries, models, storage, databases, tools, email or messaging, license checks, telemetry, time synchronization, and update channels.
Step 2
Choose the network posture
Define connected, restricted-egress, or disconnected operation and identify which product features or support workflows change under that posture.
Step 3
Establish lifecycle procedures
Document installation, validation, upgrades, secrets rotation, capacity, backup, restoration, monitoring, incident response, and decommissioning.
Step 4
Exercise failure modes
Test registry loss, certificate expiry, unavailable models, storage pressure, broken DNS, revoked credentials, failed upgrades, recovery, and evidence export.
Disconnected operation requires explicit validation
This page does not claim that every BlueBear feature operates in a fully air-gapped environment. External model APIs, software registries, communications integrations, license or support services, telemetry, and control-plane dependencies must be inventoried and replaced, mirrored, proxied, or disabled for the selected network posture.
Private deployment can increase data and infrastructure control while also increasing patching, capacity, availability, recovery, model operations, and support responsibilities. Those responsibilities must be assigned before production use.
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Compare private infrastructure with customer-owned public-cloud deployment.
Azure deployment
Use Azure-native identity, private networking, and operations controls.
AWS deployment
Use AWS-native account, IAM, VPC, and observability controls.
Kubernetes agent deployment
Prepare resource, health, isolation, and scaling controls.