dstack.md

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title: dstack
---

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    <img src="https://i.ibb.co/71kx6hW/vllm-dstack.png" alt="vLLM_plus_dstack"/>
</p>

vLLM can be run on a cloud based GPU machine with [dstack](https://dstack.ai/), an open-source framework for running LLMs on any cloud. This tutorial assumes that you have already configured credentials, gateway, and GPU quotas on your cloud environment.

To install dstack client, run:

```bash
pip install "dstack[all]
dstack server
```

Next, to configure your dstack project, run:

```bash
mkdir -p vllm-dstack
cd vllm-dstack
dstack init
```

Next, to provision a VM instance with LLM of your choice (`NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf` for this example), create the following `serve.dstack.yml` file for the dstack `Service`:

??? code "Config"

    ```yaml
    type: service

    python: "3.11"
    env:
        - MODEL=NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
    port: 8000
    resources:
        gpu: 24GB
    commands:
        - pip install vllm
        - vllm serve $MODEL --port 8000
    model:
        format: openai
        type: chat
        name: NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
    ```

Then, run the following CLI for provisioning:

??? console "Command"

    ```console
    $ dstack run . -f serve.dstack.yml

    ⠸ Getting run plan...
    Configuration  serve.dstack.yml
    Project        deep-diver-main
    User           deep-diver
    Min resources  2..xCPU, 8GB.., 1xGPU (24GB)
    Max price      -
    Max duration   -
    Spot policy    auto
    Retry policy   no

    #  BACKEND  REGION       INSTANCE       RESOURCES                               SPOT  PRICE
    1  gcp   us-central1  g2-standard-4  4xCPU, 16GB, 1xL4 (24GB), 100GB (disk)  yes   $0.223804
    2  gcp   us-east1     g2-standard-4  4xCPU, 16GB, 1xL4 (24GB), 100GB (disk)  yes   $0.223804
    3  gcp   us-west1     g2-standard-4  4xCPU, 16GB, 1xL4 (24GB), 100GB (disk)  yes   $0.223804
        ...
    Shown 3 of 193 offers, $5.876 max

    Continue? [y/n]: y
    ⠙ Submitting run...
    ⠏ Launching spicy-treefrog-1 (pulling)
    spicy-treefrog-1 provisioning completed (running)
    Service is published at ...
    ```

After the provisioning, you can interact with the model by using the OpenAI SDK:

??? code

    ```python
    from openai import OpenAI

    client = OpenAI(
        base_url="https://gateway.<gateway domain>",
        api_key="<YOUR-DSTACK-SERVER-ACCESS-TOKEN>"
    )

    completion = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf",
        messages=[
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Compose a poem that explains the concept of recursion in programming.",
            }
        ]
    )

    print(completion.choices[0].message.content)
    ```

!!! note
    dstack automatically handles authentication on the gateway using dstack's tokens. Meanwhile, if you don't want to configure a gateway, you can provision dstack `Task` instead of `Service`. The `Task` is for development purpose only. If you want to know more about hands-on materials how to serve vLLM using dstack, check out [this repository](https://github.com/dstackai/dstack-examples/tree/main/deployment/vllm)