litellm/tests
Achilleas Athanasiou Fragkoulis cb95b1cf92 fix: Add LITELLM_UI_PATH and LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH for read-only filesystem support (#20492)
Fixes #19578

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When deploying the LiteLLM proxy with `readOnlyRootFilesystem: true` in Kubernetes, UI routes returned `404` because:

- Hardcoded paths:
  - `/var/lib/litellm/ui`
  - `/var/lib/litellm/assets`
- Runtime copy/restructure operations failed on read-only filesystems
- No detection mechanism for pre-restructured UI

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Add configurable environment variables with intelligent detection, graceful fallbacks, and code quality improvements.

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- **`LITELLM_UI_PATH`** — Custom UI directory location
  - Default: `/var/lib/litellm/ui` (when `LITELLM_NON_ROOT=true`)
  - Default: packaged UI path (otherwise)
  - Example: `/app/var/litellm/ui` for `emptyDir` volumes

- **`LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH`** — Custom assets directory location
  - Default: `/var/lib/litellm/assets` (when `LITELLM_NON_ROOT=true`)
  - Default: current working directory (otherwise)
  - Example: `/app/var/litellm/assets`

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UI is detected as **pre-restructured and ready** if any of the following apply:

1. **Primary**: `.litellm_ui_ready` marker file exists (created by Dockerfile)
2. **Fallback**: Pattern-based detection — finds *any* subdirectory containing `index.html`
   (resilient to UI structure changes; no hardcoded route names)
3. **Safety**: Filesystem writability check before operations

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**`litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py`**

- `_validate_ui_directory()` — Verifies UI has required structure (`index.html`, `_next/`)
- `_is_ui_pre_restructured()` — Pattern-based detection (not hardcoded routes)
- `_try_populate_ui_directory()` — Helper for clean error handling
- Refactored UI path decision tree with numbered cases (1, 2, 3, 4a, 4b)
- Updated UI path logic to use `LITELLM_UI_PATH`
- Added writability checks before copy/restructure operations
- Graceful fallback to packaged UI if operations fail
- Updated `server_root_path` replacement with read-only check
- Simplified assets directory creation (try/except instead of complex parent checks)
- Updated `get_image()` endpoint to use `LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH`
- Added validation for packaged and final UI paths

**`docker/Dockerfile.non_root`**

- Added `touch .litellm_ui_ready` marker after UI restructuring
- Enables automatic detection of pre-built UI in Docker images

**`tests/proxy_unit_tests/test_ui_path_detection.py`**

- Added comprehensive unit tests for new functionality
- Tests env var handling, detection logic, and writability checks

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**`docs/my-website/docs/proxy/config_settings.md`**

- Added `LITELLM_UI_PATH` and `LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH` to env vars table
- Documented defaults and use cases

**`docs/my-website/docs/proxy/prod.md`**

- Added comprehensive "Read-Only Root Filesystem" section
- Quick fixes for permission errors
- Full Kubernetes setup with `initContainer` + `emptyDir` volumes
- API-only deployment option
- Environment variables reference table
- Notes on migrations, caching, and `server_root_path`

**`docker/README.md`**

- Updated hardened setup notes to mention pre-built UI
- Added details about UI serving from read-only paths

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- No breaking changes
- Existing deployments continue working without modifications
- New env vars are optional with sensible defaults
- Detection logic supports both old and new builds
- Graceful fallbacks throughout

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```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      initContainers:
        - name: setup-ui
          image: ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:main-stable
          command: ["sh", "-c", "cp -r /var/lib/litellm/ui/* /app/var/litellm/ui/"]
          volumeMounts:
            - name: ui-volume
              mountPath: /app/var/litellm/ui
      containers:
        - name: litellm
          env:
            - name: LITELLM_UI_PATH
              value: "/app/var/litellm/ui"
            - name: LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH
              value: "/app/var/litellm/assets"
          securityContext:
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
          volumeMounts:
            - name: ui-volume
              mountPath: /app/var/litellm/ui
      volumes:
        - name: ui-volume
          emptyDir:
            sizeLimit: 100Mi
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agent_tests [Fix] A2a Agent Gateway Fixes - A2A agents deployed with localhost/internal URLs in their agent cards (e.g., http://0.0.0.0:8001/) (#20604) 2026-02-06 15:02:34 -08:00
audio_tests
basic_proxy_startup_tests
batches_tests Fix: Bug: Batch Rate Limiter Cannot Access User Files 2026-02-10 12:25:26 +05:30
code_coverage_tests [Release - 02/10/2026] v1.81.10-nightly 2026-02-10 16:26:30 -08:00
documentation_tests fix: test_env_keys 2026-01-20 18:37:56 +05:30
enterprise Merge pull request #20838 from BerriAI/litellm_managed_error_file 2026-02-10 18:20:26 +05:30
guardrails_tests Add team policy mapping for zguard (#20608) 2026-02-07 22:44:17 -08:00
image_gen_tests [Release - 02/10/2026] v1.81.10-nightly 2026-02-10 16:26:30 -08:00
litellm fix(batch_completion): submit all model futures before waiting (#20705) 2026-02-11 15:44:37 +05:30
litellm_core_utils Fix: empty assistant message for converse API 2026-02-04 09:50:58 +05:30
litellm_utils_tests feat: hashicorp vault rotate support 2026-01-23 17:32:55 +09:00
litellm-proxy-extras fix: resolve 'does not exist' migration errors as applied in setup_database (#19281) 2026-01-26 22:11:36 -08:00
llm_responses_api_testing Fix: Responses API logging error for StopIteration 2026-01-23 18:42:33 +05:30
llm_translation fix: support prompt_cache_key for OpenAI and Azure chat completions (#20989) 2026-02-11 12:25:29 -08:00
load_tests
local_testing [Release - 02/10/2026] v1.81.10-nightly 2026-02-10 16:26:30 -08:00
logging_callback_tests Fix: phoenix tests issues 2026-02-11 16:13:20 +05:30
mcp_tests mcp: support http(s) URLs for spec_path in OpenAPI MCP loader (#20753) 2026-02-10 16:00:36 +05:30
multi_instance_e2e_tests
ocr_tests
old_proxy_tests/tests
openai_endpoints_tests Fix: Managed Batches: Inconsistent State Management for list and cancel batches 2026-02-03 14:47:28 +05:30
otel_tests test fix 2026-01-31 19:08:07 -08:00
pass_through_tests
pass_through_unit_tests Fix beta header old tests 2026-02-11 18:13:36 +05:30
proxy_admin_ui_tests fix critical CVE vulnerabliltes (#20683) 2026-02-07 22:23:01 -08:00
proxy_e2e_anthropic_messages_tests fix: bedrock-converse-claude-sonnet-4.5 2026-01-31 14:41:02 -08:00
proxy_security_tests
proxy_unit_tests fix: Add LITELLM_UI_PATH and LITELLM_ASSETS_PATH for read-only filesystem support (#20492) 2026-02-12 19:39:04 +05:30
router_unit_tests fix(test): add router.acancel_batch coverage (#20183) 2026-01-31 12:39:19 -08:00
scim_tests
search_tests skip brave tests 2026-01-22 10:50:23 -08:00
spend_tracking_tests increasing time for spend tracking 2026-01-20 16:31:25 -08:00
store_model_in_db_tests
test_litellm Merge pull request #20481 from Harshit28j/litellm_aws_rotation_fix 2026-02-12 09:36:10 +05:30
unified_google_tests Revert "[Infra] Changing Google Tests to use Gemini 3 Flash Preview" 2026-01-20 17:32:10 -08:00
vector_store_tests [Feat] RAG API - Add s3_vectors as provider on /vector_store/search API + UI for creating + PDF support for /rag/ingest (#19895) 2026-01-27 16:30:59 -08:00
windows_tests
__init__.py
gettysburg.wav
large_text.py
openai_batch_completions.jsonl
README.MD
test_budget_management.py
test_callbacks_on_proxy.py
test_config.py
test_debug_warning.py
test_default_encoding_non_root.py fix: resolve Read-only file system error in non-root images (#19449) 2026-01-20 19:00:52 -08:00
test_end_users.py
test_entrypoint.py
test_fallbacks.py Revert "fix: prevent error when max_fallbacks exceeds available models (#20071)" 2026-02-03 15:15:30 +05:30
test_gpt5_azure_temperature_support.py
test_health.py
test_keys.py Adding retries to flaky tests 2026-01-22 15:21:44 -08:00
test_litellm_proxy_responses_config.py
test_logging.conf
test_models.py
test_openai_endpoints.py
test_organizations.py Adding retries to flaky tests 2026-01-22 15:21:44 -08:00
test_otel_thread_leak.py Fix thread leak in OpenTelemetry dynamic header path (#19946) 2026-01-28 10:35:37 -08:00
test_passthrough_endpoints.py
test_presidio_latency.py fix(presidio): reuse HTTP connections to prevent OOMs (#19964) 2026-01-28 16:08:53 -08:00
test_proxy_server_non_root.py deactivating non root tests 2026-01-23 22:55:36 -08:00
test_ratelimit.py
test_resource_cleanup.py
test_service_logger_otel.py fix(langfuse_otel): ignore service logs and fix callback shadowing (#19298) 2026-01-19 05:53:47 -08:00
test_spend_logs.py
test_team_logging.py
test_team_members.py
test_team.py Fix: test_team_update_sc_2 2026-02-05 09:40:21 +05:30
test_users.py

In total litellm runs 1000+ tests

[02/20/2025] Update:

To make it easier to contribute and map what behavior is tested,

we've started mapping the litellm directory in tests/test_litellm

This folder can only run mock tests.