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On-Premise LLM Deployment Spec: Infrastructure, Security & Compliance Checklist

Hardware sizing, model selection (Ollama/local deployment), HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2 checklist, cost modeling vs cloud API.

Rinku Diwakar, Senior AI EngineerTarget: DevOps Lead Engineers, Security Officers & System Engineers11 min read
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Table of Contents & Section Overview

16 Pages Total
01.

Hardware & VRAM Sizing Matrix

GPU selection for 8B, 70B, and 120B parameter models.

02.

Inference Engine Server Stack

Configuring vLLM, Ollama, and TensorRT-LLM for throughput.

03.

VPC & Air-Gapped Network Topology

Isolating model servers from outbound internet calls.

04.

HIPAA / SOC 2 Compliance Verification

Audit logging, encryption at rest, and memory zeroing.

05.

Appendix: Kubernetes Deployment Manifests

Helm values and k8s YAML templates.

Problem Statement

"Deploying open-weights LLMs in zero-egress VPCs requires optimizing inference batching while ensuring zero temporary data persistence on GPU VRAM across tenant requests."

Section 3 Excerpt: Air-Gapped Network Topology & Ingress Isolation

Inference server pods must be provisioned in private Kubernetes subnets with no outbound NAT gateway routes. All model weight downloads are pre-staged into internal S3/MinIO storage buckets during deployment build phases.

API access to the model server is exposed exclusively through an internal ingress gateway enforcing TLS 1.3 mutual authentication (mTLS) and OAuth2 service tokens.

Hardware Sizing Guidelines

Model ParametersQuantizationRequired VRAMRecommended GPU
8B ParametersFP16 / Int816-24 GB1x NVIDIA L4 / A10G
70B ParametersAWQ 4-bit40-48 GB2x NVIDIA A10G / 1x H100
70B ParametersFP16 (Uncompressed)140+ GB8x NVIDIA A100 (80GB)

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