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SGLang integration
Ray Serve LLM provides an OpenAI-compatible API that integrates with SGLang via the server_cls parameter on LLMConfig. Most engine_kwargs that work with sglang serve also work here, giving you SGLang's feature set through Ray Serve's distributed deployment capabilities.
The integration uses SGLangServer, a custom server class that wraps SGLang's in-process engine and exposes chat, completions, embeddings, tokenize, and detokenize endpoints through the standard Ray Serve LLM protocol.
This compatibility means you can:
- Use SGLang's RadixAttention and other optimizations with Ray Serve's production features
- Deploy SGLang models with autoscaling, multi-model serving, and advanced routing
- Serve models across multiple nodes with tensor and pipeline parallelism
:::{note} Community SGLang support is in early development. Track progress and provide feedback at ray-project/ray#61114. :::
Prerequisites
pip install "ray[llm]" "sglang[all,ray]"
Set the following environment variable before running any example:
- CUDA:
RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 - ROCm:
RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0
Online serving (single node)
Deploy a single-node SGLang model with autoscaling. The server_cls parameter tells Ray Serve LLM to use the SGLangServer instead of the default vLLM engine.
::::{tab-set}
:::{tab-item} Server :sync: server
:language: python
:start-after: __sglang_single_node_start__
:end-before: __sglang_single_node_end__
:::
:::{tab-item} Python Client :sync: client
:language: python
:start-after: __sglang_query_start__
:end-before: __sglang_query_end__
:::
:::{tab-item} cURL :sync: curl
# Chat completions
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "List 3 countries and their capitals."}],
"temperature": 0,
"max_tokens": 64
}'
# Text completions
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
"prompt": "San Francisco is a",
"max_tokens": 30,
"temperature": 0
}'
:::
::::
Run:
RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 serve run serve_sglang_example:app
Online serving (multi-node with TP+PP)
Deploy a large model across multiple nodes using tensor parallelism (TP=4) and pipeline parallelism (PP=2). This requires 2 nodes with 4 GPUs each (8 GPUs total).
The placement_group_strategy: "PACK" fills GPUs on each node before moving to the next, so with 2 nodes (4 GPUs each) each node gets one pipeline stage. The SGLangServer.get_deployment_options() method constructs placement groups from the placement_group_config.
::::{tab-set}
:::{tab-item} Python :sync: python
:language: python
:start-after: __sglang_multinode_start__
:end-before: __sglang_multinode_end__
:::
::::
Run:
RAY_EXPERIMENTAL_NOSET_CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 serve run serve_sglang_multinode_example:app
Limitations
The following SGLang features are available upstream but not yet integrated into Ray Serve LLM. Community contributions are welcome:
- Engine replicas: Multiple engine replicas within a single deployment. See ray-project/ray#62480.
- Observability: Engine-level metrics (e.g. KV cache utilization, request queue depth).
- Prefill disaggregation: Separating prefill and decode phases across different workers.
- Wide EP: Wide expert parallelism for Mixture-of-Experts models.
- Elastic EP: Fault-tolerant expert parallelism with dynamic rank health tracking.
- Transcriptions and score: The
/v1/audio/transcriptionsand/v1/scoreendpoints.
Dependencies
SGLang's in-process engine overrides Python signal handlers on startup. The SGLangServer.__init__ includes a workaround that saves and restores signal handlers around engine initialization. If you encounter issues with graceful shutdown, this is a known area of friction.
See also
- SGLang supported models
- SGLang OpenAI compatibility
- {doc}
../quick-start- Basic LLM deployment examples - {doc}
cross-node-parallelism- Cross-node parallelism with placement groups