https://route179.dev/tags/slinky/ Recent content in Slinky on Route179 Hugo en-us 2026 Sheng Chen Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://route179.dev/2026/08/16/slurm-on-kubernetes-with-slinky/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +1000 https://route179.dev/2026/08/16/slurm-on-kubernetes-with-slinky/ <p>A few weeks ago I built a Slurm GPU cluster <a href="https://route179.dev/2026/08/03/slurm-qwen-finetune/">from scratch on bare EC2</a> and fine-tuned Qwen3-4B across two <code>g6.12xlarge</code> nodes. This post runs the <strong>same</strong> Slurm fine-tune — but using the <a href="https://github.com/SlinkyProject/slurm-operator">Slinky operator</a> on Amazon EKS.</p> <p>Slinky is an open-source project for running Slurm inside Kubernetes: a Kubernetes operator, with custom controllers and CRDs, that manages the lifecycle of a Slurm cluster and its <code>NodeSet</code>s as native Kubernetes resources. The point is to get the best of both worlds: combining Slurm&rsquo;s deterministic, fine-grained batch scheduling with Kubernetes&rsquo; dynamic resource allocation and rapid scaling.</p>