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homelab/ansible/roles/llm-inference/tasks/serve.yml
Hermes Agent service account aa8e229e64 fix(llm-inference): switch serve phase from vLLM+bitsandbytes to llama.cpp+GGUF
bitsandbytes peak RAM ~54GB (bf16 load before quantize) — kills 40GB OptiPlex.
llama.cpp Q4_K_M GGUF loads pre-quantized: peak RAM ~15.5GB, fits cleanly.

Changes:
- serve.yml: build llama.cpp with CUDA, download Q4_K_M GGUF from bartowski,
  disable vllm-serve, deploy llama-server.service
- llama-server.service.j2: OpenAI-compatible server on same port 8000,
  --n-gpu-layers 99 (full GPU offload), --parallel 4, gemma chat template
- defaults: llm_gguf_dir, llm_gguf_path, llm_gpu_layers, llm_parallel_slots
- handlers: restart llama-server, vllm-serve failed_when=false (may not exist)

GGUF: bartowski/gemma-2-27b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf (15.5GB, 24GB VRAM fits w/ ~8GB headroom)
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---
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FILE: roles/llm-inference/tasks/serve.yml
# DESCRIPTION: Phase 5 — llama-server (llama.cpp) serving Gemma 2 27B-it GGUF.
#
# WHY llama.cpp instead of vLLM:
# vLLM with bitsandbytes int4 quantizes on-the-fly — loads full bf16 weights
# (~54GB RAM peak) before compressing, killing the 40GB OptiPlex on warmup.
# llama.cpp loads the pre-quantized GGUF directly (~15.5GB peak RAM for Q4_K_M).
# No torch.compile, no warmup spike, OpenAI-compatible API on the same port.
#
# GGUF source: bartowski/gemma-2-27b-it-GGUF (Q4_K_M, 15.5GB)
# Model downloaded to: {{ llm_gguf_path }}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- name: Install llama.cpp build dependencies
ansible.builtin.apt:
name:
- cmake
- build-essential
- libcurl4-openssl-dev
state: present
update_cache: false
- name: Clone llama.cpp repository
ansible.builtin.git:
repo: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
dest: /opt/llama.cpp
depth: 1
update: false
become: true
- name: Build llama.cpp with CUDA support
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
chdir: /opt/llama.cpp
creates: /opt/llama.cpp/build/CMakeCache.txt
become: true
- name: Compile llama.cpp (parallel build)
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: cmake --build build --config Release --parallel {{ ansible_processor_vcpus }}
chdir: /opt/llama.cpp
creates: /opt/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server
become: true
timeout: 600
- name: Create GGUF model directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: "{{ llm_gguf_dir }}"
state: directory
owner: "{{ llm_venv_owner }}"
group: "{{ llm_venv_owner }}"
mode: "0755"
- name: Download Gemma 2 27B Q4_K_M GGUF from HuggingFace
ansible.builtin.get_url:
url: "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/gemma-2-27b-it-GGUF/resolve/main/gemma-2-27b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf"
dest: "{{ llm_gguf_path }}"
headers:
Authorization: "Bearer {{ vault_hf_token }}"
owner: "{{ llm_venv_owner }}"
group: "{{ llm_venv_owner }}"
mode: "0644"
timeout: 7200
become: true
no_log: true
- name: Disable and stop vllm-serve if present
ansible.builtin.systemd:
name: vllm-serve
state: stopped
enabled: false
failed_when: false
notify: reload systemd
- name: Deploy llama-server systemd service unit
ansible.builtin.template:
src: llama-server.service.j2
dest: /etc/systemd/system/llama-server.service
owner: root
group: root
mode: "0644"
notify:
- reload systemd
- restart llama-server
- name: Flush handlers to reload systemd before enabling service
ansible.builtin.meta: flush_handlers
- name: Enable and start llama-server
ansible.builtin.systemd:
name: llama-server
state: started
enabled: true
daemon_reload: true
- name: Wait for llama-server API to become available (model load ~30s)
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: "http://localhost:{{ llm_serve_port }}/health"
status_code: 200
register: llama_health
retries: 18
delay: 10
until: llama_health.status == 200
- name: Smoke-test — list available models
ansible.builtin.uri:
url: "http://localhost:{{ llm_serve_port }}/v1/models"
status_code: 200
return_content: true
register: llama_models
- name: Print available models
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "llama-server serving: {{ llama_models.json.data | map(attribute='id') | list }}"