text-generation-inference/docs/source/basic_tutorials/docker_launch.md

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# Launching with Docker
The easiest way of getting started is using the official Docker container:
```shell
model=tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct
volume=$PWD/data # share a volume with the Docker container to avoid downloading weights every run
docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.0.0 --model-id $model
```
**Note:** To use GPUs, you need to install the [NVIDIA Container Toolkit](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/install-guide.html). We also recommend using NVIDIA drivers with CUDA version 11.8 or higher.
You can then query the model using either the `/generate` or `/generate_stream` routes:
```shell
curl 127.0.0.1:8080/generate \
-X POST \
-d '{"inputs":"What is Deep Learning?","parameters":{"max_new_tokens":20}}' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
```
```shell
curl 127.0.0.1:8080/generate_stream \
-X POST \
-d '{"inputs":"What is Deep Learning?","parameters":{"max_new_tokens":20}}' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
```
or from Python:
```shell
pip install text-generation
```
```python
from text_generation import Client
client = Client("http://127.0.0.1:8080")
print(client.generate("What is Deep Learning?", max_new_tokens=20).generated_text)
text = ""
for response in client.generate_stream("What is Deep Learning?", max_new_tokens=20):
if not response.token.special:
text += response.token.text
print(text)
```
To see all options to serve your models (in the [code](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/blob/main/launcher/src/main.rs)) or in the cli:
```
text-generation-launcher --help
```