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Description

Adds the vllm runtime inference provider (VllmInferenceProvider) using PAI’s VLLMProvider, OpenAI-compatible model discovery, OpenAIChatModel / OpenAIEmbeddingModel, and clear failure for rerank. Multiple deployments remain separate registry entries by provider id.

Type of change

• Refactor
• New feature
• Bug fix
• CVE fix
• Optimization
• Documentation Update
• Configuration Update
• Bump-up service version
• Bump-up dependent library [pyproject.toml + uv.lock]
• Bump-up dependent library [requirements.*.txt for Konflux]
• Bump-up library or tool used for development (does not change the final image)
• CI configuration change
• Konflux configuration change
• Unit tests improvement
• Integration tests improvement
• End to end tests improvement
• Benchmarks improvement

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Related Tickets & Documents

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• Closes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/LCORE-4707

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• I have performed a self-review of my code.
• PR has passed all pre-merge test jobs.
• If it is a core feature, I have added thorough tests.

Testing

• uv run pytest tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/test_provider.py
• Confirm PROVIDER_CLASSES["vllm"] registers and build/discover/create hooks behave with mocked models.list (no network).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for connecting to vLLM-compatible inference services using a configured service URL and optional API key.
  • Available models are discovered automatically. Chat and embedding models can be used, and model types are identified from recognized names; unrecognized model identifiers default to language models.
  • Reranking models are not supported.

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Walkthrough

Adds a vLLM inference provider that builds a configured provider, discovers models and infers their types, creates chat and embedding models, and rejects rerank requests.

Changes

vLLM provider integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider setup and model discovery src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py, tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/test_provider.py, tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/README.md, tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/__init__.py	Builds the provider with a configured base URL and optional API key. Discovers model IDs and infers their types. Tests cover configuration and discovery.
Model creation and rerank handling src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py, tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/test_provider.py	Creates chat and embedding models from catalog IDs. Rerank creation raises ModelTypeNotSupportedError. Tests cover both behaviors.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

• lightspeed-core/lightspeed-stack#3020: Updates pydantic-ai to a version that provides the VLLMProvider imported by this change.

Suggested reviewers: tisnik

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to b530b

Embedding models with unrecognized IDs need an explicit type override to work. Clarify and test that path before merging; also isolate the credential test from its environment.

Pre-merge checks: 7

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: implementing the vLLM provider.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Performance And Algorithmic Complexity		PASSED. The new vLLM discovery performs one models.list() request and one linear pass over response.data (provider.py:50-57). Model-type checks use precomputed frozenset membership, so each item i…
Security And Secret Handling		PASSED. The changed production file only reads the configured SecretStr with get_secret_value() and passes it to VLLMProvider; it does not log or hardcode a credential (src/providers/inference/v…

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Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Full details: Performance And Algorithmic Complexity

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PASSED. The new vLLM discovery performs one models.list() request and one linear pass over response.data (provider.py:50-57). Model-type checks use precomputed frozenset membership, so each item is O(1). The code has no nested item work, per-item API calls, growing cache, or pagination loop. The catalog stores the bounded result of one provider model-list response, consistent with the existing OpenAI and Azure providers.

Full details: Security And Secret Handling

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PASSED. The changed production file only reads the configured SecretStr with get_secret_value() and passes it to VLLMProvider; it does not log or hardcode a credential (src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py:38-41). The only key literals are dummy test values (test-key and api-key-not-set) in unit tests. The PR adds no API endpoints, Kubernetes Secrets, RH secrets, SQL, command execution, or path construction. Model IDs are passed to the OpenAI-compatible client as model parameters.

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Review comments at @src/providers/inference/vllm/provider.py:
- Line 118: Keep the "llm" fallback in infer_model_type_from_pai_known_names for
unknown chat models, but ensure an allowed_models[].model_type value of
"embedding" overrides inferred types for unknown embedding models. Add a test
verifying that this override selects the embedding factory while unknown chat
models remain discoverable.

Review comments at @tests/unit/providers/inference/vllm/test_provider.py:
- Line 56: In the missing-key test that asserts `pai_provider.client.api_key`,
remove `VLLM_API_KEY` from the environment with `monkeypatch.delenv` before
constructing the provider, so the assertion consistently exercises the unset-key
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Learning: 2026-10-23T10:52:21.820Z

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Repo: lightspeed-core/lightspeed-stack PR: 0
File: AGENTS.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-23T10:52:21.820Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# Lightspeed Core Stack Development Guide

## Testing Framework

### Unit Tests (pytest)

- **Async tests**: Use marker `pytest.mark.asyncio`

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