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ModelPack: Packaging AI Models the Cloud-Native Way

by Shriira Press

ModelPack is a vendor-neutral CNCF sandbox standard for packaging AI models as OCI artifacts, so models ship through the same registries, content-addressable storage, and supply-chain tooling that already move containers. This book opens with the model-distribution problem and why OCI is the right foundation, then explains how ModelPack reuses the OCI image manifest, the precise media types it assigns to weights, code, datasets, and docs, and the rich model config carrying architecture, parameter size, precision, and capabilities. It turns practical with the modctl CLI and its Modelfile to build and push a real artifact, and closes by placing ModelPack among registries, Kubernetes serving, governance, and the wider AI ecosystem.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — The Trouble with Shipping Models
3. 3Chapter 2 — Standing on OCI's Shoulders
4. 4Chapter 3 — Anatomy of a Model Artifact
5. 5Chapter 4 — The Model Config
6. 6Chapter 5 — Building and Distributing with modctl
7. 7Chapter 6 — ModelPack in Practice