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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 

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?

Adds `@dynamo_worker(static = True)` to create a static worker which has a predictable name and hence does not require discovery or `etcd` to be running. There can only be a single static worker per namespace / component / endpoint trio.

This contrasts with the default dynamic `dynamo_worker` endpoints we have now, which get a unique random name (based on namespace/component/endpoint), and are discovered by ingress components using etcd.

Also change the hello_world example to use `dynamo_worker(static = True)` so that it is exercised and demonstrated somewhere.

For NIM.

That ensures it gets removed when the process stops.

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>

Needs more testing but good enough for now. I get the same results with this as with `vllm serve`.

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

Add backend type `EngineConfig::StaticCore` that wraps the engine in a preprocessor (prompt templating and tokenization).

Add example engine `echo_core` (`out=echo_core`) which takes and returns tokens. A nice side effect is that it echos the full prompt template with system prompt, whereas `echo_full` echos only user prompt.

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/27ec0a7b-a27d-4e69-96ea-1ffa0822ea90)

Signed-off-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@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.