mirror.peers names the mirrors kept in step with mirror.api. The
mirror's management calls go to the first that can be reached, and
each mirror is asked every fifteen seconds whether it answers: a shard
is sent its model's and adapters' address on one that does while the
mirror the catalog names is down.
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server init and mirror init took the first non-loopback address for the
mirror's --base, Docker's 172.17.0.1 on a machine with Docker; nodes asked
their own bridge for every model and were refused. primaryAddr takes the
default route's source, else the first address on an interface that is not
a container's, bridge's or overlay's. node add has the node reach the
mirror's files during the checks and fails, naming the address and the fix,
when it cannot.
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firewall.enabled (default true) is a cluster setting, applied live: the
leader sends a Firewall message to every agent when it registers and when
the setting or firewall_networks changes, and the agent (root) takes llmgw's
nft table out or installs it. A control plane writes the state to
/var/lib/llmgw/firewall.json, which llmgw-firewall-sync.path applies as root
with `llmgw firewall sync`; server init and server add install the units,
`llmgw firewall sync --install` on one set up before. node add and server
add put no firewall on a machine while the setting is off.
`llmgw wipe` removes llmgw from a machine after listing what goes and asking
for its name: units, engines' processes, the nft table, /etc/llmgw,
/var/lib/llmgw, the agent's state, the sudo grant, the CA from the trust
store, keepalived's configuration when llmgw wrote it, and the users.
--models, --store (Patroni member, etcd, or the local database) and --all
take more. The console has it under Do.
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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 control plane's firewall answered only the networks it was installed
with, so a node on another subnet was set up, could not reach 7443 and
showed as lost. node add now admits the node's network (or its address,
when routed) into the local ruleset, keeping everything already there.
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A bundle carries what a cluster would download — llmgw's release with its
signed checksums, every llama.cpp build per architecture with GitHub's
checksums, model files pinned and checked against Hugging Face's — into a
directory or a tar whose manifest sha256 is carried apart. Import checks
everything, the release against the signing key, before anything is put in
the mirror. With offline.mirror set, nodes install llama.cpp from the
mirror against checksums the control plane holds and sends over the agent
stream; releases default to the mirror for node add, ctl upgrade and agent
upgrades. server init and the setup form install from a bundle.
The Helm chart runs one control plane with SQLite on a claim or an external
PostgreSQL, Secrets for the agent certificate and admin token, Services,
Ingress and ServiceMonitor; deploy/container/Dockerfile builds its image.
GPU nodes stay outside Kubernetes, as docs/kubernetes.md explains.
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The admin listener answered any local process: models added, nodes
upgraded, engine keys listed, the heap dumped. /api and /debug now demand
the token the server writes 0600 to its state directory on first start;
ctl, the console and node add send it (sudo, LLMGW_ADMIN_TOKEN or
--token-file). pprof is off unless debug_pprof. admin_listen off loopback
is refused unless admin_remote. Dashboard pages, /metrics and /health are
unchanged.
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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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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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In a terminal and without --admin, server init shows a short form: the
administrator's email, the other names nodes will use (with the addresses
it found), SQLite or PostgreSQL, and the mirror, node and starter model.
Its own lines then fill in as a list — read from the writer init already
uses, so nothing in init changed — with downloads updating in place and the
password in a box until the end. The whole run, password included, is
printed again when the screen closes, so it is in the terminal's history.
The last screen says how to add a node and to back up the authority's key.
node add takes several addresses and adds them in turn, with a summary.
Suggested fabrics carry what the adapters report them to be, so a name
given for one node is used for the next on the same fabric without asking.
Tried on empty VMs: init from the form through to the starter model
serving, and two nodes added to that cluster in one command. The first
attempt at the form lost its keystrokes to the terminal colour query in a
pseudo-terminal that never answers it; a real terminal does.
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Adding a node was deploy/bootstrap/onboard-node.sh, which is not installed
anywhere and wanted the node's name, the control plane's address and a
dozen flags. It is now in the binary, run on the control plane:
sudo llmgw node add ubuntu@10.0.0.21
The node id is the machine's hostname, and the address its agent dials is
this machine's on the route to it, checked against the server certificate.
It installs llmgw there (the release for its architecture, fetched and
checked by the node; uname rather than dpkg, so RHEL works), runs doctor
there and stops on a problem before changing anything, issues and installs
the certificate, writes agent.yaml and the unit, starts the agent, and waits
for it to join and install llama.cpp. The authority is read first, so a
missing one is said before the node is touched.
The steps are events. In a terminal they draw a checklist (bubbletea) that
asks what a script cannot: which fabric each group of active adapters is on,
grouped by the subnet manager or RoCE network they report, and whether to go
on past a problem. Elsewhere, one line per step.
Found by running it on an empty VM: ssh's "Permanently added" warning on
stderr was read as the machine's hostname, so standard error is now kept
apart; and a node added again while cordoned never counted as joined, so
joining now means a heartbeat since the restart.
llmgw node remove forgets a lost node, which otherwise stays listed until
the control plane restarts. ctl nodes no longer lists vLLM as skipped on
every CPU node. The quick install, install and onboarding docs use it.
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