guard.enabled (unset is on) makes every policy check nothing while false,
live: llmgw ctl guard off/on set it in the cluster's settings, and ctl
status, ctl guard list and the guardrails page say when they are off.
A refusal by a judge names the hazard it saw - judge: S6,Specialized
Advice - and the verdict is kept with the request in a new usage column,
guard_rule, shown by ctl request, the request log and the guardrails page.
llmgw ctl guard judge ask has a judge read a text, past the cache, and shows
its raw answer and how it is read; the endpoint is kept out of the audit so
no text is recorded.
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Everything in server.yaml that is not one machine's own is now a versioned
document in the store (cluster_settings), the same on every control plane.
The first start against a store imports the file's cluster keys, with the
baseline guard policy when there is none; after that those keys in a file
are ignored, with a warning.
Each control plane polls the document's version and its own server.yaml's
hash. A change is validated and applied: guard live (Gate.Replace), anything
else by a graceful restart that systemd brings back, standbys first and the
leader 30s later. A version that does not load on a machine is not applied;
at start the newest one that loads is used, so a bad edit cannot keep every
control plane down.
llmgw ctl config show/get/set/unset/edit/history/rollback, the admin API
under /api/v1/settings, and the console's Settings screen, which layers the
store's document over the machine's file, write it. Commands beside the
control plane that read cluster keys (init, node add, server add, backup,
upgrade) read the layered configuration; init --bundle writes offline to
the store once it holds the settings.
A standby that becomes the leader re-reads models, engine choices and
facility holds from the store.
Retires appendGuardIfMissing: the import does it.
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The console and ctl on a standby showed its own empty view: nodes and
replicas live in the leader's memory. A standby now passes /api/ to the
leader over the agent port, with the cluster's certificates both ways; the
leader answers only a certificate naming a control plane the store lists,
and only while it leads. Control plane certificates are issued for client
use as well, and server add reissues older ones.
An agent's reconnect backoff starts again after a session that worked, so
each failover it lives through no longer makes the next one slower.
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A control plane being stopped held every agent's stream for the thirty
seconds of a graceful shutdown, so the standby led within four seconds and
had no nodes for thirty. The agent server is now closed, not drained. A
control plane that loses its lease while it lives on lets its agents go,
rather than keeping nodes the new leader cannot reach.
ctl status and the console's Overview say which control plane leads, which
stand by, and whether the floating address is on the leader. The console
adds a control plane (Do → Add a control plane), asking for the machine and
the floating address. server add says when the mirror would refuse the new
control plane.
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Conflicts with facility-aware placement (config, control, admin API routes,
store test tables) all keep both; the generated reference and OpenAPI
document regenerated.
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ctl federation add/list/remove/sync keeps peers in the store (migration
0029); their /v1/models are offered here as external models named
PEER/MODEL and kept in step, a model still named by a fallback kept
withdrawn. Peers are checked at /ready, timed, and taken out of routing
while down. Requests to a peer carry x-llmgw-hop and are refused (508) when
they come back to a cluster they passed through; residency and no_store
keep requests off peers; X-Request-Id and, with --send-tags, attribution
tags go along. ctl model fallbacks sets overflow to a peer. Console view,
metrics, admin API routes and docs.
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Nodes say where they are with llmgw.io/site, room, row, rack and pdu labels,
from agent.yaml or `llmgw ctl label` (kept in the store, over the agent's).
Placement spreads a model's replicas across racks and PDUs, keeps a
multi-node replica within one domain when its profile says keep_within,
places nothing in a domain held with `llmgw ctl facility hold` (optionally
draining it), and refuses a shard that would take a domain past its power
cap from facility.budgets, counting declared, derived and measured draw.
Explain-placement names the domain, and keeps the rejections of a placed
replica; `ctl nodes` gains LOCATION and --domain; `ctl facility` lists the
domains; the console's Nodes view shows and sets location and holds.
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A vLLM model can carry PEFT adapters, registered at start, or with
max_loaded_adapters held at most N per replica: the router loads an adapter
through vLLM's runtime LoRA API when a request first wants it, sends the
adapter's requests to a replica that holds it while that one is not
saturated, loads each cold adapter once, and unloads the least recently used
idle one to make room. llama.cpp keeps loading every adapter at start.
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Conflicts: docs.go (manual, OpenAPI and suites all kept), modelserve Job
(trace and eval both kept). The eval routes are added to the OpenAPI route
table, update and promote documented with their optional body, and the
document regenerated.
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A suite is a set of cases in YAML or JSON lines, each scored by exact,
contains, regex, a number within a tolerance, a JSON Schema subset, or a
judge model with a rubric; weighed into one score against a threshold.
internal/bench/eval runs one on the control plane through Router.Replay, as
the gateway's own requests, and keeps every run and its cases in the store
(migration 0028: eval_runs, eval_cases).
- llmgw ctl eval MODEL --suite FILE|NAME, --history, --run, --suites; exits
non-zero below the score. Suites by name from control.eval_dir, or the
two built in from deploy/eval (arithmetic, json-format).
- model update and promote take --eval SUITE --min-score N, or a model's
standing gate (ctl model gate, eval: in the catalog): a promote asks the
canary first and leaves it below the score; an update tries the new
weights as a canary given no share, then promotes or removes it.
- The console's model menu: ask a suite with its progress, its runs, its
gate.
- The audit middleware no longer hands a handler a body cut off at 64 KiB.
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Discovery reports a card in MIG mode as its instances instead of the whole
card, on both paths: nvidia-smi (-L names them, -q -x gives their memory,
ids and processes) and NVML (GetMigMode, GetMaxMigDeviceCount,
GetMigDeviceHandleByIndex, behind an interface so it is tested with a fake).
Each instance has its MIG UUID, its own memory, and a class from the card's
and the profile: a100-80g-mig-3g.40gb. Placement numbers instances
1000 + 100 x card + instance and every view shows them as card/migN.
A replica on MIG runs on exactly one instance: a process opens one MIG
device and instances have no NVLink between them, so tp, pp, gpus or nodes
above one on a MIG class are refused in catalog validation and again in
placement, and the planner offers one instance or none. The agent gives
the engine CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=MIG-<uuid> (no Vulkan device variable on
MIG). Memory and processes are per instance; heat, power and wear the
card's; utilisation is left out rather than reported as zero. A card in MIG
mode with nothing carved stays out of placement with the reason, and
llmgw doctor reports each card's mode and instances and warns of the states
in which nothing can run. ctl nodes, ctl status, the console and the plan
count devices by class. docs/install.md has a MIG section.
Written against fakes of nvidia-smi and NVML output; not yet run on MIG
hardware.
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llmgw keys cache --project P --ttl 1h [--any] | --off, and Cache answers… on
the console's project menu. The same request — project, endpoint, canonical
model and the body without stream, stream_options, user, metadata, store and
service_tier, keys sorted — is answered from the gateway's memory for the
TTL. Only reproducible answers (temperature 0 or a seed; embeddings, rerank,
score) unless --any; only a whole 200 from the model asked for, not a
fallback's, a canary's, or one a guardrail changed.
Looked up after the limits and the input guardrails; the output policy
judges a reused answer; no_store and stored conversations bypass it.
Streamed answers are kept put back together and streamed back as chunks.
x-llmgw-cache: hit|miss|bypass, Age on a hit, Cache-Control: no-cache or
x-llmgw-cache: no to bypass. A hit is recorded with no tokens and no cost,
marked cache_hit (migration 0027) and shown by ctl request. An LRU bounded
by router.cache.max_bytes and max_entry_bytes; llmgw_cache_requests_total,
llmgw_cache_bytes, llmgw_cache_entries.
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adminapi.Routes lists every endpoint with its query parameters and Go values
of the bodies it reads and answers with; internal/docgen/openapi turns that
into docs/admin-api.openapi.json by reflection, the way encoding/json encodes
the types, with the fields' comments as descriptions. A test fails when an
endpoint is registered and not in the table, another when the committed
document is stale. The binary embeds it and serves it with the token.
Handlers that wrote map literals and decoded anonymous structs now use named
types, so the document can see them. GET /api/v1/models/{name} answers with a
model's whole definition as it is in force, which a tool managing it needs.
docs/admin-api.md: reaching the API, the token, what a request must carry.
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notify.webhooks sends signed JSON or Slack-compatible messages, queued,
retried, de-duplicated hourly; ctl notify test checks each webhook.
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Monitor draws CPU, memory, GPUs, requests, tokens, latency, network and disk
as Braille charts over 5m/1h/24h/7d, then per node, card and model
sparklines; node and model pages have their own. History is read from
monitoring.prometheus through POST /api/v1/metrics/range, or without it
from what the console saw. The control plane serves the cluster's machines
for Prometheus http_sd at /prometheus/targets on its metrics port, and node
add installs prometheus-node-exporter.
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The console starts a serve or update job over the admin API and stays,
instead of closing to follow the download. Jobs lists them with their
progress and steps; the sidebar counts those running. ctl model serve and
update take --detach; ctl jobs lists jobs and follows one.
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The control plane reads the model's shape from one GGUF header or its
config.json and lists, for every file, the best way it runs here: one card,
several of a node's (by layer for llama.cpp, tensor-parallel for vLLM),
several nodes' over one fabric (vLLM, pipeline-parallel between them), or a
CPU node; what each card holds and whether it is free now. ctl model plan
prints it; model serve takes its file and way unless told, gives a GGUF on
GPUs a GPU profile, and with --fallbacks adds the next best ways. The
console shows it per file and asks for the way and the fallback.
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The mirror keeps where it fetched a file beside it, and reports that and the
checksum after it restarts. A model whose files the mirror cannot trace is
found on the registry: a repository holding a file of that name that has the
commit the mirror's directory is named after, with every file at the same
size, the most downloaded first. ctl model origin and the console set one by
hand, checked the same way. Commits compare shortened.
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A model served from the registry records its origin: repository, commit and
each file's checksum; one served before is worked out from the mirror's
record of where it fetched the file. Every mirror.update_check (6h) the
control plane asks whether those files changed there. ctl model updates
lists it, ctl model update fetches beside the old files, checks, swaps and
replaces replicas one at a time, ctl model rollback goes back. The console
shows it on Models and offers the same.
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init --patroni user@host ... installs PostgreSQL, Patroni and etcd on the
given machines over ssh, with this one as the third etcd vote, makes the role
and database, and moves the store in use into the cluster. Each step checks
first, so it changes nothing on a cluster that is up. For a store of several
hosts the control plane publishes each member's role, state and lag from
Patroni, a stopped member as missing, prints it in ctl status, and alerts on
it. Making an administrator on PostgreSQL sent a bool to an integer column;
it sends an integer now.
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A node that cannot run the CUDA 13 build installs the same version's
CUDA 12.9 build from vLLM's GitHub release, with PyTorch's cu129 torch;
the install computes on the GPU before it counts. The build can be
chosen per node — auto, cu13, cu129, none — on the cluster page, with
ctl engine-build, or over the admin API; the control plane keeps the
choice and tells the node at once.
Refs #2.
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A restart with no room beside it waited the drain grace period before
stopping the old replica, and stopped it even when the replacement
would fit nowhere. It now stops at once when the replica alone blocks
its replacement, gives the restart up (saying why) when nothing would
fit, and ctl restart --in-place stops first on request.
Refs #2 (item 3).
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engine_overrides give nodes picked by GPU class, id or labels their own
engine versions; node add --disable-engine keeps one off a node; what
vLLM cannot do on a node is a warning rather than a refused node; the
CUDA requirement follows the version; a hand-named binary is no longer
replaced by an installed one.
Refs #2 (items 4 and 7).
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llmgw ctl model adapters lists a model's adapters and adds or removes
them through POST /api/v1/models/{name}/adapters, which reads each new
file first and refuses one that is not an adapter for the model's
architecture, as the mirror page's card does.
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A catalog model with external {url, model, api_key_file} and no profiles
is published as an endpoint by the control plane, the key read from its
file each time; the router rewrites the request's model to the provider's
name and sends its key. It is never scraped nor stale, and nothing is
placed for it. Named in fallbacks, it serves when the cluster has no room.
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The quotas page gains a capacity section over the same API methods the CLI
uses; a model's card sets its class, owner, memory and cores, applying only
what changed. Headroom counts the replicas a model could get by preempting
what its class outranks, and the card and ctl model target use it.
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Every agent samples, at most every ten seconds: nvidia-smi's temperature,
HBM temperature, power draw, enforced limit and throttle reasons per GPU;
hwmon's CPU package and board inlet temperatures; and CPU package power
from RAPL's energy counters. Sent with heartbeats, published as metrics
and shown on the node page; unmeasured sensors are absent, never zero.
Observe-only, step 0 of docs/facility-aware-placement.md, which now
describes the agent source and what these readings can and cannot say.
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Stored ctl bench results reach the reconciler: requests per replica past
the measured SLO concurrency scale a model up, a replica is taken back only
if the rest stay under 70% of theirs, and among profiles of equal priority
the most measured tokens per GPU or core is tried first. ctl model target
sizes a model for a throughput against the room there is.
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A model has an owner (org, team or project). Quotas guarantee a scope
GPUs, cores and memory and may limit it; what a scope holds is summed from
its models' replicas and those beneath it. A replica within its owner's
guarantee is not taken for another scope; what is held beyond a guarantee
is borrowed and taken back for a scope within its own. A limit stops a
model before it starts, and headroom stops there too. ctl quota and ctl
model owner set them; metrics and a CapacityAtLimit alert report them.
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A model's class (critical, standard, opportunistic; unset follows its
scaling) decides what may be stopped to make room for it: a lower class
for a higher, and within a class only what another grew into under load,
for a model below its minimum. Victims are tried on a copy of the
inventory and stopped only if they make the room. Preempted replicas are
drained with a short grace and their model is held back until the room is
used. ctl model resources and class move under ctl model.
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A profile's cpu_cores is reserved out of its node's CPUs by placement, as
memory is, and becomes the engine's thread count. Agents report their CPU
count in registration and heartbeats. New CPU models must declare memory;
model views show reserved against measured memory with warnings, and
ctl model resources sets both for a stored model.
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The Held tab's model name opens a card: each replica with its node, state,
age, CPU and memory, the room for more found by dry-running the scheduler
on a copy of the inventory, and a form for the always-running and
under-load replica counts. An always-running count placement cannot meet
is refused with the reason. Headroom is also on the admin API.
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CPU replicas start on half the machine's CPUs, not all of them: two busy
llama.cpp servers each spinning on all 8 vCPUs fell to 0.8 tok/s apiece,
where at 4 threads they keep 5.5. llamacpp.threads sets it per node.
Inference requests can be traced over OTLP/HTTP (tracing.endpoint), with
admission, schedule and upstream spans and traceparent sent to the engine.
Security: onboarding no longer puts the cluster root in the system trust
store and removes it where it was; the mirror's mutual-TLS API can be
limited to named certificates (--api-client); init.log no longer keeps the
administrator's password; a warning when auth is off on a public listen;
the recorded actor is sanitised and sudo-aware; Ray's dashboard is off, and
the remaining engine gaps are documented.
reconciler.go and agent.go are split by topic, the status mapping of each
failure is tested, and the plan's checklist is brought up to date.
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Adding a model took four steps and a YAML file — plan it, fetch it into the
mirror, write its catalog entry with a memory figure somebody estimated,
scale it — and whether it would load was found out at the end.
`llmgw ctl model serve OWNER/REPO` does it as one job in the control plane,
where the registry, the mirror, the catalog and the fleet already are:
- the registry: the GGUF file set matching --quant (Q4_K_M by default) or
--file, leaving out vision projectors and importance matrices, and naming
what the repository does have when nothing matches; gated repositories are
refused;
- the mirror: fetched at the repository's revision, with progress, and each
file's sha256 compared with what the registry published — the mirror is
the one place a corrupted download is caught once rather than loaded on
every node;
- the check: whether the nodes' llama.cpp loads the architecture, and the
memory it needs from its own header;
- the catalog, then a wait for a replica that stops early, with the reason,
when the model is parked or fits on no node;
- a smoke test: one short request to the replica, with its engine key, and
the answer and tokens per second.
ctl starts the job and prints each step as it changes; a download of hours
does not depend on the terminal. --on-demand adds the model without starting
a replica. Jobs are kept in memory until the control plane restarts.
The catalog name a repository suggests moved into the registry package, so
the mirror page and this agree on it.
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Every upgrade so far has been a script of mine copying a binary to each
machine over ssh, restarting it and polling until it came back — which is
the job, but not something the product could do, and which needed ssh into
every node.
`sudo llmgw ctl upgrade VERSION` on the control plane does it. This machine
first: the release for its platform, checked against the release's
checksums, the old binary kept beside it, llmgw-server restarted, and a wait
until every node that was ready has reconnected. Then each node in turn: the
control plane tells its agent the version over the stream it already holds;
the agent fetches and checks the release itself, swaps it in with a rename,
answers, and exits with status 75 so systemd starts the new binary. Engines
keep running, as for any agent restart, and are adopted again.
A node is done when it is back on the new version, ready, with as many ready
replicas as before; one that is not within the timeout stops the run before
the next node, so a bad release reaches one machine. Nodes already on the
version are skipped, so running it again resumes.
The fetch-and-verify is one package now, shared with onboarding's idea of
what a release version looks like.
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"Why was this request slow?" had no answer. Nothing tied a request to the
replica that served it, the time admission held it went out in a response
header and was never kept, and the only per-request log lines were for
disconnects, early stream ends and upstream retries.
Every request now has an id: the client's X-Request-Id when it is a plain
string of reasonable length, otherwise one the gateway makes. It is set on
the response before anything else, so a request refused as malformed can be
named too, and forwarded to the engine. One access log line per request
carries it with the model asked for and served, the replica, status, time in
the queue, time to the first token, total time, tokens, and the key,
project and user.
Usage records gain the id, the replica, queue time and time to first token,
tried against a restored copy of the live store before being shipped: 591
rows kept, columns and index in place. `llmgw ctl request ID` reads one back
through the admin API.
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On the live cluster kev-0.5b — an architecture the nodes' llama.cpp did not
know — was started 155 times in eight hours, failing the same way each time,
and phi-4, which fitted on no node, logged "no placement" 250 times in two
days. Neither showed up anywhere an operator looked: the backoff never gave
up, no metric said a model was failing or unplaceable, and the one alert for
a model with nothing serving could not fire, because its series was published
only while a replica was ready.
After five failures in a row a model is parked: not placed again until its
definition changes — a new source or profile — or `llmgw ctl retry` is run.
Status, the model list and the admin API show it with its last error. The
placement warning is logged when its reason changes or every ten minutes.
A request for a parked or unplaceable model is answered at once with why,
rather than "loading; retry shortly", which a client retries forever. Each
request still clears the previous placement result and triggers a fresh
attempt, so a model that fits once room is made is not refused on a stale
answer; the router waits for that attempt, not for its full activation
window.
Metrics now cover model health (desired, ready at 0 for what should run,
consecutive start failures, parked, unplaceable), engine installs per node,
leadership, and certificate expiry read from disk at each scrape, with alerts
for each. `ctl status` counts a model against what it should have now, so an
on-demand model that was asked for and fitted nowhere no longer reads as
satisfied.
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There was no way to restart a running replica. A running engine picks up an
engine key, an edited profile or a new engine version only when it starts,
so after v0.10.3 the nine replicas already running stayed without a key —
reachable from any node — with nothing to do about it short of draining
nodes, which on a small CPU fleet has nowhere to move a model to.
`llmgw ctl restart REPLICA... | --model M | --all` queues replicas to be
replaced. A replica being replaced keeps serving but stops counting toward
its model, so the reconciler places a replacement beside it; once that is
ready the old one is drained and stopped as a node drain would. Replicas of
one model go one at a time, so a model never needs the memory of every
replica twice. Where no second copy fits anywhere, the old replica is
stopped after the drain grace period and the new one starts in its place,
and the log says so, since that is the one case with an outage.
`ctl replicas` shows "(restart queued)" and "(restart replacing)" while it
happens.
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