homelab-codex-ws/services/kb-query/env.example
oskar 3d4ee3818d feat(kb-query): active embed fallback SOLARIA→PIHA (module 5 phase 4, plan §2/§5)
Last missing core piece of KB phase 4: kb-query no longer hard-fails /search
when Ollama@SOLARIA is unreachable. app/fallback.py implements the plan's
circuit-breaker exactly (30s cached health probe, 3s hard embed timeout on
SOLARIA, one-shot same-request switch to a new local ollama-piha@PIHA
container on timeout/error). sol_status in /healthz and /search now reflects
the real breaker state instead of a hardcoded "up".

New services/ollama-piha (bge-m3, OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=0, arm64/no-GPU) is the
local fallback leg. Live calibration on PIHA (2026-07-27, normal load):
embed latency 4.2-5.2s, RAM peak ~983MiB against a 2.5GiB ceiling -- both
inside the plan's go-bar, so the fallback is enabled by default rather than
gated behind a flag. Calibration also surfaced and disabled (not removed) a
previously-undocumented orphaned native ollama.service on PIHA that had been
conflicting with the container's port.

The embed-model invariant (query embedding == document_chunk.model) still
enforces once at startup, since both fallback legs share one EMBED_MODEL
constant by construction; a redundant per-request DB check was deliberately
skipped and the invariant is instead proven structurally by test.

retrieval_eval.py gains --transport http (plan §2 decision 6/§9), previously
unimplemented. Verified live: HTTP transport is bit-identical to direct
transport against the same live SOLARIA (0 mismatches), and a live sol-down
simulation (kb-query's own OLLAMA_URL pointed at a dead address, no other
Ollama consumer touched) shows the PIHA fallback answering with the same
hit@3 gate outcome and dist within ~3e-4 of the SOLARIA baseline.

Zero changes to DB schema or kb_retrieval's retrieval logic -- only the
embed + health layer, per task constraints.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 22:23:53 +02:00

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# kb-query secrets + host-local binds — copy to .env (gitignored) next to
# docker-compose.yml and fill in real values. Never commit .env.
# LAN IP of PIHA. The published port (8230) binds ONLY to this interface —
# never 0.0.0.0. Verify after host rebuilds: ip -4 addr.
LAN_BIND_IP=192.168.31.5
# asyncpg DSN for kb-postgres@PIHA. kb-query runs in its own Docker network
# (separate compose project from kb-postgres), so it reaches kb-postgres's
# published port over the host's LAN interface, not "localhost" — same
# reasoning as paperless-worker@SOLARIA reaching paperless@PIHA over LAN.
KB_DSN=postgresql://kb:CHANGE-ME@192.168.31.5:5433/kb
# Ollama upstream (SOLARIA, over Tailscale MagicDNS — same trick as
# llm-gateway's OLLAMA_URL). Optional: defaults to this value if unset.
# OLLAMA_URL=http://solaria:11434
# Local fallback Ollama (ollama-piha@PIHA, plan §2 decision 2 / §5) — used only when SOLARIA
# is unreachable/times out. kb-query runs in its own Docker network (separate compose project
# from ollama-piha), so this must be PIHA's LAN IP + published port, not "localhost" — same
# reasoning as KB_DSN above. Optional: defaults to http://localhost:11434, which fails closed
# (nothing listens there in this container) until you set the real value below.
# OLLAMA_PIHA_URL=http://192.168.31.5:11434
# Embedding model kb-query enforces as a startup invariant (plan §2 decision
# 2) against document_chunk.model / document_summary.embedding_model.
# Optional: defaults to bge-m3.
# EMBED_MODEL=bge-m3
# document_summary.model kb-query's cascade path pre-filters on (the
# compilation track, plan §2 D3). Optional: defaults to claude-haiku-4-5.
# SUMMARY_MODEL=claude-haiku-4-5