yggdrasilGetting Started

Getting Started with Yggdrasil

Welcome to the Yggdrasil infrastructure system getting started guide.

Overview

Yggdrasil is Polysystems’ distributed infrastructure system designed to provide scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant orchestration for AI services. Named after the world tree in Norse mythology, Yggdrasil connects and supports all services in the Polysystems ecosystem.

What is Yggdrasil?

Yggdrasil serves as the backbone infrastructure for the Polysystems platform, providing:

  • Service Orchestration: Automated deployment and management of AI services
  • Load Balancing: Intelligent traffic distribution across service instances
  • High Availability: Automatic failover and redundancy mechanisms
  • Scalability: Dynamic resource allocation and horizontal scaling
  • Monitoring: Real-time health checks and performance monitoring

Prerequisites

Before working with Yggdrasil, you should have:

  • Understanding of distributed systems
  • Familiarity with the Polysystems Platform
  • Knowledge of container orchestration (helpful but not required)
  • Access to Polysystems infrastructure (for enterprise users)

Coming Soon

Comprehensive getting started documentation is being prepared. This will include:

  1. Installation & Setup

    • Installing Yggdrasil CLI
    • Configuring your environment
    • Connecting to Yggdrasil clusters

  2. Basic Concepts

    • Understanding nodes and clusters
    • Service discovery and registration
    • Health checks and monitoring
    • Load balancing strategies

  3. Deploying Your First Service

    • Service configuration
    • Deployment workflows
    • Managing service lifecycle
    • Monitoring deployment status

  4. Configuration

    • Configuration file structure
    • Environment variables
    • Secrets management
    • Resource allocation

  5. Monitoring & Observability

    • Viewing service logs
    • Checking service health
    • Performance metrics
    • Alerting setup

Quick Start Example

# Example commands coming soon
 
# Check Yggdrasil status
yggdrasil status
 
# Deploy a service
yggdrasil deploy --config service.yaml
 
# Monitor services
yggdrasil services list
 
# View logs
yggdrasil logs <service-name>

Architecture

Yggdrasil is built on modern distributed systems principles:

  • Control Plane: Manages cluster state and orchestration decisions
  • Data Plane: Handles service traffic and data flow
  • Service Mesh: Provides service-to-service communication
  • Storage Layer: Maintains configuration and state

For detailed architecture information, see the Yggdrasil Architecture page.

Key Features

Automatic Scaling

Yggdrasil automatically scales services based on demand, ensuring optimal resource utilization and performance.

Self-Healing

Failed services are automatically detected and restarted, maintaining high availability without manual intervention.

Service Discovery

Built-in service discovery allows services to find and communicate with each other dynamically.

Rolling Updates

Deploy updates with zero downtime using rolling update strategies.

Resource Management

Efficient resource allocation and isolation ensure services don’t interfere with each other.

Use Cases

Yggdrasil is ideal for:

  • AI Service Deployment: Deploy and manage ML models and AI services
  • Microservices Architecture: Orchestrate complex microservice applications
  • Batch Processing: Run large-scale batch AI processing jobs
  • Research Workloads: Manage experimental ML training and inference
  • Production Systems: Host production-grade AI services with high reliability

Getting Help

For assistance with Yggdrasil:

Next Steps

Once you’re familiar with the basics:

Integration with Polysystems

Yggdrasil is tightly integrated with other Polysystems components:

  • Hub Service: Routes requests to services managed by Yggdrasil
  • OMM: Runs on Yggdrasil infrastructure for scalable AI processing
  • Payment System: Tracks resource usage for billing

Learn more in the Platform Overview.

Note: Yggdrasil infrastructure access is currently available for enterprise customers. Contact our team for more information about deploying your services on Yggdrasil.

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