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watsonx Distribution

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The llamastack/distribution-watsonx distribution consists of the following provider configurations.

APIProvider(s)
agentsinline::meta-reference
datasetioremote::huggingface, inline::localfs
evalinline::meta-reference
inferenceremote::watsonx, inline::sentence-transformers
safetyinline::llama-guard
scoringinline::basic, inline::llm-as-judge, inline::braintrust
telemetryinline::meta-reference
tool_runtimeremote::brave-search, remote::tavily-search, inline::rag-runtime, remote::model-context-protocol
vector_ioinline::faiss

Environment Variables​

The following environment variables can be configured:

  • LLAMASTACK_PORT: Port for the Llama Stack distribution server (default: 5001)
  • WATSONX_API_KEY: watsonx API Key (default: ``)
  • WATSONX_PROJECT_ID: watsonx Project ID (default: ``)

Models​

The following models are available by default:

  • meta-llama/llama-3-3-70b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-2-13b-chat (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-2-13b)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-1-70b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-1-8b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-2-1b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-2-3b-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct)
  • meta-llama/llama-guard-3-11b-vision (aliases: meta-llama/Llama-Guard-3-11B-Vision)

Prerequisite: API Keys​

Make sure you have access to a watsonx API Key. You can get one by referring watsonx.ai.

Running Llama Stack with watsonx​

You can do this via venv or Docker which has a pre-built image.

Via Docker​

This method allows you to get started quickly without having to build the distribution code.

LLAMA_STACK_PORT=5001
docker run \
-it \
-p $LLAMA_STACK_PORT:$LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
-v ./run.yaml:/root/my-run.yaml \
llamastack/distribution-watsonx \
--config /root/my-run.yaml \
--port $LLAMA_STACK_PORT \
--env WATSONX_API_KEY=$WATSONX_API_KEY \
--env WATSONX_PROJECT_ID=$WATSONX_PROJECT_ID \
--env WATSONX_BASE_URL=$WATSONX_BASE_URL