Runway Production Control-Plane Architecture

Overview

The stable architecture centers on an internal operation record rather than a provider request. It isolates credentials, models asynchronous task state, applies cost and concurrency admission, preserves media in owned storage, and makes provider/API drift reviewable.

Prerequisites

• Workload, SLO, data-classification, and budget requirements
• Current Runway API, model, limits, pricing, and output contracts
• Owners for security, media rights, moderation, operations, and finance

Instructions

Step 1: Define trust zones

Place clients outside the provider credential boundary. Put the admission API, task worker, reconciler, secret access, and provider egress in a server zone; isolate raw media and final assets by classification.

Step 2: Make operation state authoritative