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Deployment

Instead of installing the CLI via pip, you may also use docker to run michaelf34/infinity. Make sure you mount your accelerator, i.e. install nvidia-docker and activate with --gpus all.

port=7997
model1=michaelfeil/bge-small-en-v1.5
model2=mixedbread-ai/mxbai-rerank-xsmall-v1
volume=$PWD/data

docker run -it --gpus all \
 -v $volume:/app/.cache \
 -p $port:$port \
 michaelf34/infinity:latest \
 v2 \
 --model-id $model1 \
 --model-id $model2 \
 --port $port
The cache path at inside the docker container is set by the environment variable HF_HOME.

A deployment example for usage within are located at repo, including a Github Actions Pipeline.

The example is located at michaelfeil/infinity/tree/main/infra/modal.

The GPU and Modal-powered endpoint via this Github Pipeline is free to try out at infinity.modal.michaelfeil.eu, which is available at no cost.

Runpod.io - Serverless

There is a dedicated guide on how deploy via Runpod Serverless. Find out how to deploy it via this Repo: github.com/runpod-workers/worker-infinity-text-embeddings

Bento - BentoInfinity

Example repo for deployment via Bento: https://github.com/bentoml/BentoInfinity

dstack

dstack allows you to provision a VM instance on the cloud of your choice. Write a service configuration file as below for the deployment of BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 model wrapped in Infinity.

type: service

image: michaelf34/infinity:latest
env:
  - INFINITY_MODEL_ID=BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5;BAAI/bge-reranker-base;
  - INFINITY_PORT=80
commands:
  - infinity_emb v2
port: 80

Then, simply run the following dstack command. After this, a prompt will appear to let you choose which VM instance to deploy the Infinity.

dstack run . -f infinity/serve.dstack.yml --gpu 16GB

For more detailed tutorial and general information about dstack, visit the official doc.

Docker with offline mode / models with custom pip packages

If you want to run infinity in a location without internet access, you can pre-download the model into the dockerfile. This is also the advised route to go, if you want to use infinity with models that require additional packages such as nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5.

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/michaelfeil/infinity
git checkout tags/0.0.52
cd libs/infinity_emb
# build download stage using docker buildx buildkit.
docker buildx build --target=production-with-download \
--build-arg MODEL_NAME=michaelfeil/bge-small-en-v1.5 --build-arg ENGINE=torch \
-f Dockerfile -t infinity-model-small .
You can also set an argument EXTRA_PACKAGES if you require to install any extra packages. --build-arg EXTRA_PACKAGES="torch_geometric"

Rename and push it to your internal docker registry. 

docker tag infinity-model-small  myregistryhost:5000/myinfinity/infinity:0.0.52-small
docker push myregistryhost:5000/myinfinity/infinity:0.0.52-small

Note: You can also save a dockerfile direclty as .tar. This might come in handy if you do not have a shared internal docker registry in your nuclear facility, but still want to leverage the latest semantic search. https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/image/save/.