llama-swap
llama-swap
Docker app from PikkonMG's Repository
Overview
llama-swap is a lightweight proxy server that provides automatic model swapping for llama.cpp (llama-server).
It hot-swaps models on demand based on API requests so you can serve many GGUF models from a single endpoint without restarting.
Features: automatic model loading/unloading, macros, aliases, groups for multi-model concurrency, TTL auto-unload, streaming log viewer, and OpenAI-compatible API.
SETUP:
1. Place your GGUF model files in the Models path below.
2. Create a config.yaml (see template https://github.com/PikkonMG/Unraid-docker-templates/blob/main/examples/llama-swap/example-llama-swap-config.yaml) and place it in the Config path.
3. In your config.yaml, reference models as /models/yourmodel.gguf
4. For NVIDIA GPU: install the Unraid Nvidia plugin, select the cuda tag, and set ExtraParams to: --gpus all
5. For AMD GPU: select the rocm tag and set ExtraParams to: --device /dev/kfd --device /dev/dri --group-add video --security-opt seccomp=unconfined
6. For Intel iGPU or other Vulkan-capable GPUs: select the vulkan tag and set ExtraParams to: --device /dev/dri
7. For CPU only: select the cpu tag and remove ExtraParams entirely
Runtime arguments
- Web UI
http://[IP]:[PORT:8080]/ui- Network
bridge- Privileged
- false
- Extra Params
--gpus all
Template configuration
Web UI / API PortPorttcp
Port for the OpenAI-compatible API and log viewer web UI.
- Target
- 8080
- Default
- 8080
- Value
- 8080
Models DirectoryPathro
Path to the folder containing your GGUF model files. Referenced in config.yaml as /models/filename.gguf
- Target
- /models
- Default
- /mnt/user/appdata/llama-swap/models
- Value
- /mnt/user/appdata/llama-swap/models
Config DirectoryPathrw
Path to the folder containing your config.yaml file. Hot-reload should be enabled via -watch-config.
- Target
- /config
- Default
- /mnt/user/appdata/llama-swap/config
- Value
- /mnt/user/appdata/llama-swap/config
NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICESVariable
Which NVIDIA GPU(s) to expose. Use 'all' or a specific GPU UUID from the Nvidia plugin settings page. Only needed for NVIDIA tags.
- Default
- all
- Value
- all
NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIESVariable
NVIDIA driver capabilities to expose. Use 'compute,utility' for LLM inference or 'all' for full access.
- Default
- all
- Value
- all
Categories
Details
Repository
ghcr.io/mostlygeek/llama-swap:cudaLast Updated2026-06-01
First Seen2026-04-06
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