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homelab/ansible/roles/deploy-vllm/tasks/models.yml
Hermes Agent service account 60220e18b6 feat(astro-orbiter): add deploy-vllm Ansible role (t_ca1af9fb)
Idempotent vLLM OpenAI-compatible serving role, staged-first (does not
start/enable the systemd unit or touch production traffic by default).
Validated end-to-end against astro-orbiter in a brief shadow window
(llama-swap stopped ~5 min, per homelab-llm-inference skill's documented
shadow-validation pattern):
  - /health 200, /v1/models returns Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct-AWQ,
    /v1/completions live smoke test passes, clean journalctl
  - 3 consecutive full-role runs confirmed changed=0 (idempotent)
  - production restored: llama-swap active, /v1/embeddings against
    nomic-embed-text-v1.5 confirmed still working (Hindsight retain path)

Deviates from the original spec's model choices (Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct /
Qwen3-8B-Instruct bf16) to use the official Qwen AWQ pre-quantized variants
instead -- vLLM does not do safe on-the-fly quantization on this host
(bitsandbytes OOM history) and unquantized bf16 32B does not fit 24GB VRAM.

Two real bugs found+fixed during first-start validation (systemd-only
repro, not visible via interactive SSH testing):
  1. ninja not on systemd's minimal PATH -> vLLM torch.compile
     FileNotFoundError. Fixed via explicit PATH env in the unit.
  2. FlashInfer sampler JIT fails to compile on RTX 3090 (SM86) --
     known upstream issue class (vLLM GH #23023, #44305). Fixed via
     VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER=0 (falls back to native sampler).

Also fixed a real idempotency bug: force-upgrading setuptools to latest
fought with vLLM's own setuptools<81.0.0 pin, causing an install/downgrade
flip-flop (changed:true) on every run.

vllm_service_enabled defaults to false -- a host reboot must not
auto-start vLLM and VRAM-collide with the still-live llama-swap production
service. Cutover (enabling + starting + migrating consumers) is an
explicit, separate step outside this role, gated on adding embedding-mode
support (--task embed) for nomic-embed-text-v1.5, which this role does
not yet implement (Hindsight retain still depends on llama-swap's
nomic-embed until that follow-up lands).

Role: roles/deploy-vllm/ (defaults/handlers/meta/tasks/templates/README)
Playbook: playbooks/day1_deploy_vllm.yml
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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FILE: roles/deploy-vllm/tasks/models.yml
# PHASE 2: Model downloads via huggingface-cli into {{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}.
#
# Idempotency: HuggingFace's on-disk cache layout is
# {cache}/models--{org}--{repo}/snapshots/{revision}/...
# We stat for an existing snapshots dir before downloading — if present with
# at least one entry, skip (huggingface-cli download is itself resumable/
# idempotent, but this avoids even the "check remote manifest" round trip on
# every run and gives a clean "already staged" line in output).
#
# Pitfall (t_3dddf37d, homelab-llm-inference skill): a config/template landing
# is NOT the same as the model being staged. Always verify via `ls`/`du` on
# the actual host, never trust a prior task's claim alone.
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- name: Ensure model cache directory exists
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}"
state: directory
owner: "{{ vllm_venv_owner }}"
group: "{{ vllm_venv_owner }}"
mode: "0755"
become: true
- name: Report models to be staged this run
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ vllm_enabled_models | map(attribute='id') | list }}"
- name: Check for existing snapshot dir per enabled model
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: "{{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}/models--{{ item.hf_repo | regex_replace('/', '--') }}/snapshots"
loop: "{{ vllm_enabled_models }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.id }}"
register: vllm_model_snapshot_stat
- name: Download model repo(s) not yet staged
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: >-
{{ vllm_venv_path }}/bin/hf download {{ item.item.hf_repo }}
--cache-dir {{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}
become: true
become_user: "{{ vllm_venv_owner }}"
environment:
HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER: "0"
loop: "{{ vllm_model_snapshot_stat.results }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.item.id }}"
when: not (item.stat.exists | default(false)) or (item.stat.isdir | default(false) and item.stat.size == 0)
register: vllm_model_download
# Full-size model pulls (9-18GB for 32B AWQ) can take a long time on
# homelab bandwidth — allow up to 1 hour per model.
async: 3600
poll: 30
- name: Re-stat snapshot dirs to confirm download landed
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: "{{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}/models--{{ item.hf_repo | regex_replace('/', '--') }}/snapshots"
loop: "{{ vllm_enabled_models }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.id }}"
register: vllm_model_snapshot_verify
- name: Fail if any enabled model failed to stage
ansible.builtin.fail:
msg: "Model {{ item.item.id }} ({{ item.item.hf_repo }}) is not present at {{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }} after download step."
loop: "{{ vllm_model_snapshot_verify.results }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.item.id }}"
when: not (item.stat.exists | default(false))
- name: Compute on-disk size of each staged model (sanity check, not a strict checksum)
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: "du -sh {{ vllm_hf_hub_cache }}/models--{{ item.hf_repo | regex_replace('/', '--') }}"
loop: "{{ vllm_enabled_models }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.id }}"
register: vllm_model_size
changed_when: false
- name: Report staged model sizes
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ item.stdout }}"
loop: "{{ vllm_model_size.results }}"
loop_control:
label: "{{ item.item.id }}"