# embed-rerank — THE fleet's embedding + reranking service, on esh-ml1 (CT 110 on # esh-pve, RTX 2000E Ada, 16 GB). Served by Hugging Face Text Embeddings # Inference (TEI). A second instance runs on nh3-ml1 (CT 109 on nh3-pve, the same # card) since 2026-09-25; the per-host bits are HOST_NAME / HOST_IP in .env, and # their defaults are esh-ml1's, so esh-ml1's live .env needs no change. # # Prime, 2026-09-25: "TEI is embed/reranker server for esh-ml1 and the FLEET in # general, in future." It replaced vLLM here the same day, after a side-by-side # bake-off on this card (docs/pfi/embed-rerank-tei-vs-vllm-bakeoff.md). TEI # gives the same vectors as the old vLLM seats (no re-embedding), but it is # ~1.3x slower on bulk work on this card. It is much lighter (2.6 GB VRAM for # both, 8 GB image, ~4 s restart). fv-ml1's vLLM embed/rerank seats were # retired after this went live. # # tei-embed Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B → /v1/embeddings (OpenAI), /embed :8001 # tei-rerank BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 → /rerank (body: query + texts) :8013 # # Ports kept from the vLLM era (and fv-ml1), so the embedding gateway entry did # not change address. ⚠ The RERANK gateway entry must use LiteLLM's # `huggingface/` provider: `hosted_vllm/` sends `documents` and TEI answers 422 # "missing field texts". # # ⚠ Embedding vectors are model-specific. Never change EMBED_MODEL without a # re-embedding plan for every index built on it (Worldtree, nevermore, Open WebUI). # # FAIL-CLOSED truncation (--auto-truncate false). TEI's default silently # embedded the first 16,384 tokens of a ~40k-token input and returned 200. # Turning it off requires --max-batch-tokens >= the model's max input (32,768 # for Qwen3-Embedding), or TEI refuses to start. # # NO `tnet`/traefik-net: esh-ml1 runs no traefik; consumers reach the published # ports, and in practice only the LiteLLM gateway does (verified from the seats' # logs 2026-09-25: every request matched a gateway spend-log row). # # Host setup: playbooks/pve-nvidia-host.yaml, then playbooks/gpu-lxc.yaml. # Tunables live in .env. name: embed-rerank services: tei-embed: image: ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:${TEI_TAG} container_name: tei-embed restart: unless-stopped ports: - "${EMBED_PORT}:80" volumes: - /opt/aimodels/tei-cache:/data environment: - HF_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN:-} command: - --model-id - ${EMBED_MODEL} - --served-model-name - ${EMBED_MODEL} # TEI on CUDA is float16-only; parity vs the bf16 vLLM vectors was measured. - --dtype - float16 # Default 32; vLLM had no cap and callers batch 64. - --max-client-batch-size - "${MAX_CLIENT_BATCH_SIZE}" - --auto-truncate - "false" - --max-batch-tokens - "32768" deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia device_ids: ["0"] capabilities: [gpu] healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-fsS", "http://localhost:80/health"] interval: 30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 start_period: 60s labels: - homepage.group=AI - Eval & Retrieval - homepage.name=Embed — Qwen3 0.6B (TEI, ${HOST_NAME:-esh-ml1}) - homepage.icon=mdi-vector-arrange-below - homepage.description=Fleet embeddings (qwen3-embedding) via TEI on ${HOST_NAME:-esh-ml1} - homepage.href=http://${HOST_IP:-10.0.50.80}:${EMBED_PORT}/docs tei-rerank: image: ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:${TEI_TAG} container_name: tei-rerank restart: unless-stopped ports: - "${RERANK_PORT}:80" volumes: - /opt/aimodels/tei-cache:/data environment: - HF_TOKEN=${HF_TOKEN:-} command: - --model-id - ${RERANK_MODEL} - --dtype - float16 - --max-client-batch-size - "${MAX_CLIENT_BATCH_SIZE}" # Fail-closed; bge-reranker-v2-m3's max input (8,192) fits the default # max-batch-tokens (16,384). - --auto-truncate - "false" deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia device_ids: ["0"] capabilities: [gpu] healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-fsS", "http://localhost:80/health"] interval: 30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 start_period: 60s labels: - homepage.group=AI - Eval & Retrieval - homepage.name=Rerank — bge-v2-m3 (TEI, ${HOST_NAME:-esh-ml1}) - homepage.icon=mdi-sort-variant - homepage.description=Fleet reranker (reranker) via TEI on ${HOST_NAME:-esh-ml1} - homepage.href=http://${HOST_IP:-10.0.50.80}:${RERANK_PORT}/docs