**This PR changes configurations in a backward incompatible way.**
Run configs today repeat full SQLite/Postgres snippets everywhere a
store is needed, which means duplicated credentials, extra connection
pools, and lots of drift between files. This PR introduces named storage
backends so the stack and providers can share a single catalog and
reference those backends by name.
## Key Changes
- Add `storage.backends` to `StackRunConfig`, register each KV/SQL
backend once at startup, and validate that references point to the right
family.
- Move server stores under `storage.stores` with lightweight references
(backend + namespace/table) instead of full configs.
- Update every provider/config/doc to use the new reference style;
docs/codegen now surface the simplified YAML.
## Migration
Before:
```yaml
metadata_store:
type: sqlite
db_path: ~/.llama/distributions/foo/registry.db
inference_store:
type: postgres
host: ${env.POSTGRES_HOST}
port: ${env.POSTGRES_PORT}
db: ${env.POSTGRES_DB}
user: ${env.POSTGRES_USER}
password: ${env.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
conversations_store:
type: postgres
host: ${env.POSTGRES_HOST}
port: ${env.POSTGRES_PORT}
db: ${env.POSTGRES_DB}
user: ${env.POSTGRES_USER}
password: ${env.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
```
After:
```yaml
storage:
backends:
kv_default:
type: kv_sqlite
db_path: ~/.llama/distributions/foo/kvstore.db
sql_default:
type: sql_postgres
host: ${env.POSTGRES_HOST}
port: ${env.POSTGRES_PORT}
db: ${env.POSTGRES_DB}
user: ${env.POSTGRES_USER}
password: ${env.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}
stores:
metadata:
backend: kv_default
namespace: registry
inference:
backend: sql_default
table_name: inference_store
max_write_queue_size: 10000
num_writers: 4
conversations:
backend: sql_default
table_name: openai_conversations
```
Provider configs follow the same pattern—for example, a Chroma vector
adapter switches from:
```yaml
providers:
vector_io:
- provider_id: chromadb
provider_type: remote::chromadb
config:
url: ${env.CHROMADB_URL}
kvstore:
type: sqlite
db_path: ~/.llama/distributions/foo/chroma.db
```
to:
```yaml
providers:
vector_io:
- provider_id: chromadb
provider_type: remote::chromadb
config:
url: ${env.CHROMADB_URL}
persistence:
backend: kv_default
namespace: vector_io::chroma_remote
```
Once the backends are declared, everything else just points at them, so
rotating credentials or swapping to Postgres happens in one place and
the stack reuses a single connection pool.
# What does this PR do?
This commit significantly improves the environment variable substitution
functionality in Llama Stack configuration files:
* The version field in configuration files has been changed from string
to integer type for better type consistency across build and run
configurations.
* The environment variable substitution system for ${env.FOO:} was fixed
and properly returns an error
* The environment variable substitution system for ${env.FOO+} returns
None instead of an empty strings, it better matches type annotations in
config fields
* The system includes automatic type conversion for boolean, integer,
and float values.
* The error messages have been enhanced to provide clearer guidance when
environment variables are missing, including suggestions for using
default values or conditional syntax.
* Comprehensive documentation has been added to the configuration guide
explaining all supported syntax patterns, best practices, and runtime
override capabilities.
* Multiple provider configurations have been updated to use the new
conditional syntax for optional API keys, making the system more
flexible for different deployment scenarios. The telemetry configuration
has been improved to properly handle optional endpoints with appropriate
validation, ensuring that required endpoints are specified when their
corresponding sinks are enabled.
* There were many instances of ${env.NVIDIA_API_KEY:} that should have
caused the code to fail. However, due to a bug, the distro server was
still being started, and early validation wasn’t triggered. As a result,
failures were likely being handled downstream by the providers. I’ve
maintained similar behavior by using ${env.NVIDIA_API_KEY:+}, though I
believe this is incorrect for many configurations. I’ll leave it to each
provider to correct it as needed.
* Environment variable substitution now uses the same syntax as Bash
parameter expansion.
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Han <seb@redhat.com>
# What does this PR do?
TSIA
Added Files provider to the fireworks template. Might want to add to all
templates as a follow-up.
## Test Plan
llama-stack pytest tests/unit/files/test_files.py
llama-stack llama stack build --template fireworks --image-type conda
--run
LLAMA_STACK_CONFIG=http://localhost:8321 pytest -s -v
tests/integration/files/
