llama-stack/docs/source/distributions/remote_hosted_distro/watsonx.md
Sajikumar JS 1bb1d9b2ba
feat: Add watsonx inference adapter (#1895)
# What does this PR do?
IBM watsonx ai added as the inference [#1741
](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/issues/1741)

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Co-authored-by: Sajikumar JS <sajikumar.js@ibm.com>
2025-04-25 11:29:21 -07:00

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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
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::code-interpreter, 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.

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.

LLAMA_STACK_PORT=5001
docker run \
  -it \
  -p $LLAMA_STACK_PORT:$LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  -v ./run.yaml:/root/my-run.yaml \
  llamastack/distribution-watsonx \
  --yaml-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

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