**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?
Adds a write worker queue for writes to inference store. This avoids
overwhelming request processing with slow inference writes.
## Test Plan
Benchmark:
```
cd /docs/source/distributions/k8s-benchmark
# start mock server
python openai-mock-server.py --port 8000
# start stack server
LLAMA_STACK_LOGGING="all=WARNING" uv run --with llama-stack python -m llama_stack.core.server.server docs/source/distributions/k8s-benchmark/stack_run_config.yaml
# run benchmark script
uv run python3 benchmark.py --duration 120 --concurrent 50 --base-url=http://localhost:8321/v1/openai/v1 --model=vllm-inference/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
```
## RPS from 21 -> 57
# What does this PR do?
previously, developers who ran `./scripts/unit-tests.sh` would get
`asyncio-mode=auto`, which meant `@pytest.mark.asyncio` and
`@pytest_asyncio.fixture` were redundent. developers who ran `pytest`
directly would get pytest's default (strict mode), would run into errors
leading them to add `@pytest.mark.asyncio` / `@pytest_asyncio.fixture`
to their code.
with this change -
- `asyncio_mode=auto` is included in `pyproject.toml` making behavior
consistent for all invocations of pytest
- removes all redundant `@pytest_asyncio.fixture` and
`@pytest.mark.asyncio`
- for good measure, requires `pytest>=8.4` and `pytest-asyncio>=1.0`
## Test Plan
- `./scripts/unit-tests.sh`
- `uv run pytest tests/unit`
# What does this PR do?
Inference/Response stores now store user attributes when inserting, and
respects them when fetching.
## Test Plan
pytest tests/unit/utils/test_sqlstore.py
