Chapter 3. Reviewing AI Inference Server Python packages


You can review the Python packages installed in the Red Hat AI Inference Server container image by running the container with Podman and reviewing the pip list package output.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed Podman or Docker.
  • You are logged in as a user with sudo access.
  • You have access to registry.redhat.io and have logged in.

Procedure

  1. Run the Red Hat AI Inference Server container image with the pip list package command to view all installed Python packages. For example:

    $ podman run --rm --entrypoint=/bin/bash \
      registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:3.2.3 \
      -c "pip list"
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  2. To view detailed information about a specific package, run the Podman command with pip show <package_name>. For example:

    $ podman run --rm --entrypoint=/bin/bash \
      registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:3.2.3 \
      -c "pip show vllm"
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    Example output

    Name: vllm
    Version: v0.11.0
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