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The Python bindings use the default value for RouterMode. Previously that was Random (good), but now it became None (bad).

Remove the option and clean up the duplicate RouterMode. I was trying to avoid putting the `KV` enum in dynamo-runtime. Turns out adding those two characters gives us a healthy simplification, and restores the old default router value.

Also clean up two noisy log messages when waiting for KV routing metrics to start in worker.

Router:
```
dynamo-run in=http out=dyn://dynamo.endpoint.generate --router-mode kv
```

Worker (* N):
```
dynamo-run in=dyn://dynamo.endpoint.generate out=vllm /data/llms/Qwen/Qwen3-4B
```

You need patched vllm and the C bindings `.so`. Full docs in the updated guide: `docs/guides/dynamo_run.md`.

This gives us a pure-Rust ingress node: OpenAI compliant HTTP server + Pre-processor + KV-aware router.

Part of https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo/issues/743

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

As a first step towards KV routing:
- introduce a `--router-mode` in dynamo-run that only does random and round-robin right now. Not that interesting yet.
- Make the vllm engine publish the KV events received from our patched vllm.

Now we "just" need to connect the two. Easy right?

Co-authored-by: Biswa Panda <biswa.panda@gmail.com>

There are two etcd keys:
- The service
- The model

The second one is the interesting one for us. Previously we confused the two.

Co-authored-by: Graham King <grahamk@nvidia.com>

Co-authored-by: aflowers <aflowers@nvidia.com>

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>

the journey begins