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# watsonx Distribution

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The `llamastack/distribution-watsonx` distribution consists of the following provider configurations.

| API | Provider(s) |
|-----|-------------|
| agents | `inline::meta-reference` |
| datasetio | `remote::huggingface`, `inline::localfs` |
| eval | `inline::meta-reference` |
| inference | `remote::watsonx`, `inline::sentence-transformers` |
| safety | `inline::llama-guard` |
| scoring | `inline::basic`, `inline::llm-as-judge`, `inline::braintrust` |
| telemetry | `inline::meta-reference` |
| tool_runtime | `remote::brave-search`, `remote::tavily-search`, `inline::rag-runtime`, `remote::model-context-protocol` |
| vector_io | `inline::faiss` |



### Environment Variables

The following environment variables can be configured:

- `LLAMASTACK_PORT`: Port for the Llama Stack distribution server (default: `5001`)
- `WATSONX_API_KEY`: watsonx API Key (default: ``)
- `WATSONX_PROJECT_ID`: watsonx Project ID (default: ``)

### Models

The following models are available by default:

- `meta-llama/llama-3-3-70b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-2-13b-chat (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-2-13b)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-1-70b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-1-8b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-2-1b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-2-3b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct)`
- `meta-llama/llama-guard-3-11b-vision (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-11B-Vision)`


### Prerequisite: API Keys

Make sure you have access to a watsonx API Key. You can get one by referring [watsonx.ai](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-manage/continuous-delivery?topic=setup-create-watsonx-api-key).


## Running Llama Stack with watsonx

You can do this via Conda (build code), venv or Docker which has a pre-built image.

### Via Docker

This method allows you to get started quickly without having to build the distribution code.

```bash
LLAMA_STACK_PORT=5001
docker run \
  -it \
  -p $LLAMA_STACK_PORT:$LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  -v ./run.yaml:/root/my-run.yaml \
  llamastack/distribution-watsonx \
  --config /root/my-run.yaml \
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env WATSONX_API_KEY=$WATSONX_API_KEY \
  --env WATSONX_PROJECT_ID=$WATSONX_PROJECT_ID \
  --env WATSONX_BASE_URL=$WATSONX_BASE_URL
```

### Via Conda

```bash
llama stack build --template watsonx --image-type conda
llama stack run ./run.yaml \
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env WATSONX_API_KEY=$WATSONX_API_KEY \
  --env WATSONX_PROJECT_ID=$WATSONX_PROJECT_ID
```
