llama-stack/docs/source/distributions/self_hosted_distro/tgi.md

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# TGI Distribution

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The `llamastack/distribution-tgi` 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::tgi` |
| memory | `inline::faiss`, `remote::chromadb`, `remote::pgvector` |
| safety | `inline::llama-guard` |
| scoring | `inline::basic`, `inline::llm-as-judge`, `inline::braintrust` |
| telemetry | `inline::meta-reference` |


You can use this distribution if you have GPUs and want to run an independent TGI server container for running inference.

### Environment Variables

The following environment variables can be configured:

- `LLAMASTACK_PORT`: Port for the Llama Stack distribution server (default: `5001`)
- `INFERENCE_MODEL`: Inference model loaded into the TGI server (default: `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct`)
- `TGI_URL`: URL of the TGI server with the main inference model (default: `http://127.0.0.1:8080}/v1`)
- `TGI_SAFETY_URL`: URL of the TGI server with the safety model (default: `http://127.0.0.1:8081/v1`)
- `SAFETY_MODEL`: Name of the safety (Llama-Guard) model to use (default: `meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B`)


## Setting up TGI server

Please check the [TGI Getting Started Guide](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference?tab=readme-ov-file#get-started) to get a TGI endpoint. Here is a sample script to start a TGI server locally via Docker:

```bash
export INFERENCE_PORT=8080
export INFERENCE_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0

docker run --rm -it \
  -v $HOME/.cache/huggingface:/data \
  -p $INFERENCE_PORT:$INFERENCE_PORT \
  --gpus $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES \
  ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:2.3.1 \
  --dtype bfloat16 \
  --usage-stats off \
  --sharded false \
  --cuda-memory-fraction 0.7 \
  --model-id $INFERENCE_MODEL \
  --port $INFERENCE_PORT
```

If you are using Llama Stack Safety / Shield APIs, then you will need to also run another instance of a TGI with a corresponding safety model like `meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B` using a script like:

```bash
export SAFETY_PORT=8081
export SAFETY_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-1B
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1

docker run --rm -it \
  -v $HOME/.cache/huggingface:/data \
  -p $SAFETY_PORT:$SAFETY_PORT \
  --gpus $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES \
  ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:2.3.1 \
  --dtype bfloat16 \
  --usage-stats off \
  --sharded false \
  --model-id $SAFETY_MODEL \
  --port $SAFETY_PORT
```

## Running Llama Stack

Now you are ready to run Llama Stack with TGI as the inference provider. You can do this via Conda (build code) 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 \
  llamastack/distribution-tgi \
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env INFERENCE_MODEL=$INFERENCE_MODEL \
  --env TGI_URL=http://host.docker.internal:$INFERENCE_PORT
```

If you are using Llama Stack Safety / Shield APIs, use:

```bash
docker run \
  -it \
  -p $LLAMA_STACK_PORT:$LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  -v ./run-with-safety.yaml:/root/my-run.yaml \
  llamastack/distribution-tgi \
  --yaml-config /root/my-run.yaml \
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env INFERENCE_MODEL=$INFERENCE_MODEL \
  --env TGI_URL=http://host.docker.internal:$INFERENCE_PORT \
  --env SAFETY_MODEL=$SAFETY_MODEL \
  --env TGI_SAFETY_URL=http://host.docker.internal:$SAFETY_PORT
```

### Via Conda

Make sure you have done `pip install llama-stack` and have the Llama Stack CLI available.

```bash
llama stack build --template tgi --image-type conda
llama stack run ./run.yaml
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env INFERENCE_MODEL=$INFERENCE_MODEL \
  --env TGI_URL=http://127.0.0.1:$INFERENCE_PORT
```

If you are using Llama Stack Safety / Shield APIs, use:

```bash
llama stack run ./run-with-safety.yaml \
  --port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
  --env INFERENCE_MODEL=$INFERENCE_MODEL \
  --env TGI_URL=http://127.0.0.1:$INFERENCE_PORT \
  --env SAFETY_MODEL=$SAFETY_MODEL \
  --env TGI_SAFETY_URL=http://127.0.0.1:$SAFETY_PORT
```