Create the model repository directory structure: <model_repo_root>/<model_name>/<version>/<model_file> — for example models/resnet50/1/model.onnx
Write a config.pbtxt file in the model name directory specifying at minimum: name, backend (e.g., 'onnxruntime', 'tensorrt', 'python'), max_batch_size, and input/output tensor definitions with name, data_type, and dims
Start the Triton server pointing at the repository: docker run --gpus all -v /local/model_repo:/models nvcr.io/nvidia/tritonserver:<version>-py3 tritonserver --model-repository=/models
Verify model readiness by querying the health endpoint: curl localhost:8000/v2/models/<model_name>/ready — a 200 response confirms the model is loaded
Send inference requests using the V2 HTTP inference protocol: POST localhost:8000/v2/models/<model_name>/infer with a JSON body specifying inputs as arrays
Inspect auto-generated configuration for a model without config.pbtxt by querying: curl localhost:8000/v2/models/<model_name>/config
Known gotchas
The version subdirectory must be a positive integer string (e.g., '1', '2') — non-integer directory names are ignored by Triton and the model will not load
config.pbtxt is required unless --strict-model-config=false is set at server startup to enable auto-configuration; auto-configuration is not supported for all backends
dims values in config.pbtxt use -1 as a wildcard for dynamic dimensions; specifying a fixed size that does not match the model's actual input shape causes an initialization error
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