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Signed-off-by: Graham King <grahamk@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Krishnan Prashanth <kprashanth@nvidia.com>

Publish `generation_config.json` from worker to ingress, as part of Model Deployment Card. That allows ingress to read key fields out of it. Gemma 3 4B+ has some important information that's only in there.

We can now do this:

- Node 1:

```
dynamo-run in=http out=dyn
```

- Node 2 and 3, two instances of component 'backend' in the nemotron_ultra pipeline:

```
dynamo-run in=dyn://nemotron_ultra.backend.generate out=vllm /data/models/NemotronUltra
```

- Node 4 and 5, two instances of the 'backend' component in nemotron_super pipeline:

```
dynamo-run in=dyn://nemotron_super.backend.generate out=vllm /data/models/NemotronSuper
```

The ingress node will discover all four instances and route correctly. We have been planning for this for a long time now.

As part of this auto-discovery is now always `out=dyn`, with no extra URL parts. Previously it could only route to a single pipeline.

Also:
- Refactor endpoint / instance naming now that I understand them
- Fix removing models when their instance stops.

In a distributed system we don't know if the remote workers need pre-processing done ingress-side or not. Previously Client required us to decide this before discovering the remote endpoints, which was fine because pre-processing was worker-side.

As part of moving pre-processing back to ingress-side we need to split this into two steps:
- Client discovers the endpoints, and (later PR) will fetch their Model Deployment Card.
- PushRouter will use the Model Deployment Card to decide if they need pre-processing or not, which affects the types of the generic parameters.

Part of #743

This will allow an ingress-side pre-processor to see it without needing a model checkout.

Currently pre-processing is done in the worker, which has access to the model deployment card ("MDC") files (`config.json`, `tokenizer.json` and `tokenizer_config.json`) locally. We want to move the pre-processor to the ingress side to support KV routing. That requires ingress side (i.e the HTTP server), on a different machine than the worker to be able to see those three files.

To support that this PR makes the worker upload the contents of those files to the NATS object store, and publishes the MDC with those NATS urls to the key-value store. 

The key-value store has an interface so any store (nats, etcd, redis, etc) can be supported. Implementations for memory and NATS are provided.

Fetching the MDC from the store, doing pre-processing ingress side, and publishing a card backed by a GGUF, are all for a later commit.

Part of #743 

Signed-off-by: Neelay Shah <neelays@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>

Add support in tio for distributed components and discovery.

Node 1:
```
tio in=http out=tdr://ns/backend/mistralrs
```

Node 2:
```
tio in=tdr://ns/backend/mistralrs out=mistralrs ~/llm_models/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
```

This will use etcd to auto-discover the model and NATS to talk to it. You can run multiple workers on the same endpoint and it will pick one at random each time.

The `ns/backend/mistralrs` are purely symbolic, pick anything as long as it has three parts, and it matches the other node.

Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <ryanolson@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <ryanolson@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Neelay Shah <neelays@nvidia.com>

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