KubeRay is a powerful, open-source Kubernetes operator that simplifies the deployment and management of Ray applications on Kubernetes. It offers several key components:
KubeRay core: This is the official, fully-maintained component of KubeRay that provides three custom resource definitions, RayCluster, RayJob, and RayService. These resources are designed to help you run a wide range of workloads with ease.
RayCluster: KubeRay fully manages the lifecycle of RayCluster, including cluster creation/deletion, autoscaling, and ensuring fault tolerance.
RayJob: With RayJob, KubeRay automatically creates a RayCluster and submits a job when the cluster is ready. You can also configure RayJob to automatically delete the RayCluster once the job finishes.
RayService: RayService is made up of two parts: a RayCluster and a Ray Serve deployment graph. RayService offers zero-downtime upgrades for RayCluster and high availability.
KubeRay ecosystem: Some optional components.
Kubectl Plugin (Beta): Starting from KubeRay v1.3.0, you can use the kubectl ray plugin to simplify
common workflows when deploying Ray on Kubernetes. If you aren’t familiar with Kubernetes, this
plugin simplifies running Ray on Kubernetes. See kubectl-plugin for more details.
KubeRay APIServer (Alpha): It provides a layer of simplified configuration for KubeRay resources. The KubeRay API server is used internally by some organizations to back user interfaces for KubeRay resource management. See KubeRay APIServer V2 for more details.
KubeRay Dashboard (Experimental): Starting from KubeRay v1.4.0, we have introduced a new dashboard that enables users to view and manage KubeRay resources. While it is not yet production-ready, we welcome your feedback. See KubeRay Dashboard for more details.
From September 2023, all user-facing KubeRay documentation will be hosted on the Ray documentation. The KubeRay repository only contains documentation related to the development and maintenance of KubeRay.
KubeRay examples are hosted on the Ray documentation. Examples span a wide range of use cases, including training, LLM online inference, batch inference, and more.
KubeRay integrates with the Kubernetes ecosystem, including observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, py-spy), queuing systems (e.g., Volcano, Apache YuniKorn, Kueue), ingress controllers (e.g., Nginx), and more. See KubeRay Ecosystem for more details.
Please read our CONTRIBUTING guide before making a pull request. Refer to our DEVELOPMENT to build and run tests locally.
Join Ray's Slack workspace, and search the following public channels:
#kuberay: This channel aims to help KubeRay users with their questions. The messages will be closely monitored by the Ray and KubeRay maintainers.KubeRay contributors are welcome to join the bi-weekly KubeRay community meetings.
See GOVERNANCE.md for the roles in the KubeRay community and how they are granted, and PEOPLE.md for the current role holders.
If you discover a potential security issue in this project, or think you may have discovered a security issue, please report it according to our security policy. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
Copyright Contributors to KubeRay, established as KubeRay a Series of LF Projects, LLC. For website terms of use, trademark policy and other project policies please see lfprojects.org/policies.
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KubeRay is a powerful, open-source Kubernetes operator that simplifies the deployment and management of Ray applications on Kubernetes. It offers several key components:
KubeRay core: This is the official, fully-maintained component of KubeRay that provides three custom resource definitions, RayCluster, RayJob, and RayService. These resources are designed to help you run a wide range of workloads with ease.
RayCluster: KubeRay fully manages the lifecycle of RayCluster, including cluster creation/deletion, autoscaling, and ensuring fault tolerance.
RayJob: With RayJob, KubeRay automatically creates a RayCluster and submits a job when the cluster is ready. You can also configure RayJob to automatically delete the RayCluster once the job finishes.
RayService: RayService is made up of two parts: a RayCluster and a Ray Serve deployment graph. RayService offers zero-downtime upgrades for RayCluster and high availability.
KubeRay ecosystem: Some optional components.
Kubectl Plugin (Beta): Starting from KubeRay v1.3.0, you can use the kubectl ray plugin to simplify
common workflows when deploying Ray on Kubernetes. If you aren’t familiar with Kubernetes, this
plugin simplifies running Ray on Kubernetes. See kubectl-plugin for more details.
KubeRay APIServer (Alpha): It provides a layer of simplified configuration for KubeRay resources. The KubeRay API server is used internally by some organizations to back user interfaces for KubeRay resource management. See KubeRay APIServer V2 for more details.
KubeRay Dashboard (Experimental): Starting from KubeRay v1.4.0, we have introduced a new dashboard that enables users to view and manage KubeRay resources. While it is not yet production-ready, we welcome your feedback. See KubeRay Dashboard for more details.
From September 2023, all user-facing KubeRay documentation will be hosted on the Ray documentation. The KubeRay repository only contains documentation related to the development and maintenance of KubeRay.
KubeRay examples are hosted on the Ray documentation. Examples span a wide range of use cases, including training, LLM online inference, batch inference, and more.
KubeRay integrates with the Kubernetes ecosystem, including observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, py-spy), queuing systems (e.g., Volcano, Apache YuniKorn, Kueue), ingress controllers (e.g., Nginx), and more. See KubeRay Ecosystem for more details.
Please read our CONTRIBUTING guide before making a pull request. Refer to our DEVELOPMENT to build and run tests locally.
Join Ray's Slack workspace, and search the following public channels:
#kuberay: This channel aims to help KubeRay users with their questions. The messages will be closely monitored by the Ray and KubeRay maintainers.KubeRay contributors are welcome to join the bi-weekly KubeRay community meetings.
See GOVERNANCE.md for the roles in the KubeRay community and how they are granted, and PEOPLE.md for the current role holders.
If you discover a potential security issue in this project, or think you may have discovered a security issue, please report it according to our security policy. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.
We are a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
Copyright Contributors to KubeRay, established as KubeRay a Series of LF Projects, LLC. For website terms of use, trademark policy and other project policies please see lfprojects.org/policies.
Overall
Maintained
Code review
Go module
Latest release
Releases this year
(top 24 of 50)
828 followers · starred Aug 2026
599 followers · starred Jun 2024
297 followers · starred May 2023
68 followers · starred Oct 2025