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Expert guidance for deploying Next.js applications to Vercel with environment and runtime optimization. \n \n Covers environment variable configuration across dev, preview, and production environments, with emphasis on preventing secrets exposure via NEXT_PUBLIC_ \n Distinguishes between Edge and Serverless function runtimes, helping you choose the right execution model for API routes and functions \n Addresses build optimization strategies to reduce cold starts, bundle size, and deployment time

NVIDIA RAG Blueprint — deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and manage. Handles any RAG action: deploy, install, start, enable, disable, toggle, change, configure, troubleshoot, debug, fix, shutdown, stop, or tear down any RAG feature or service (Agentic RAG, VLM, guardrails, query rewriting, models, search, ingestion, observability, summarization, reasoning, and more).

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Install cuOpt for Python, C, or server via pip, conda, or Docker; verify the install. For building cuOpt from source, see cuopt-developer.

cuOpt REST server — start server, endpoints, Python/curl client examples. Use when the user is deploying or calling the REST API.

Secure Helm chart deployments by validating chart integrity, scanning templates for misconfigurations, and enforcing security contexts in Kubernetes releases.

Prepares production launches with checklists for code quality, security, performance, and more to ensure safe deployments.

Automates CI/CD pipeline setup and ensures quality gates are met before deployment.

You are a Vercel deployment expert. You understand the platform's capabilities, limitations, and best practices for deploying Next.js applications at scale.

Multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates and deployment orchestration. \n \n Covers four deployment strategies: rolling updates, blue-green, canary, and feature flags, each with trade-offs for downtime, rollback speed, and infrastructure cost \n Includes approval gate patterns for manual review, time-based delays, and multi-approver workflows across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure Pipelines \n Provides automated rollback mechanisms triggered by health checks and failure detection, pl