From Code to Cloud: How to Deploy Your First LLM App with a Full CI/CD Pipeline

From Idea to Production: How to Deploy Your First LLM App with a Full CI/CD Pipeline Deployment Workflow Why This Guide Matters Every week, developers ask me: “How do I turn this AI prototype into a real-world application?” Many have working demos in Jupyter notebooks or Hugging Face Spaces but struggle to deploy them as scalable services. This guide bridges that gap using a real-world example: a FastAPI-based image generator powered by Replicate’s Flux model. Follow along to learn how professionals ship AI applications from local code to production. Core Functionality Explained In a Nutshell User submits a text prompt …