Add server example (#9918)

* Add server example.

* Minor updates to README.

* Add fixes after local testing.

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Co-authored-by: Steven Liu <59462357+stevhliu@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: thealmightygrant

docs/source/en/_toctree.yml

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
 - sections:
   - local: using-diffusers/overview_techniques
     title: Overview
+  - local: using-diffusers/create_a_server
+    title: Create a server
   - local: training/distributed_inference
     title: Distributed inference
   - local: using-diffusers/merge_loras

docs/source/en/using-diffusers/create_a_server.md

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+
+# Create a server
+
+Diffusers' pipelines can be used as an inference engine for a server. It supports concurrent and multithreaded requests to generate images that may be requested by multiple users at the same time.
+
+This guide will show you how to use the [`StableDiffusion3Pipeline`] in a server, but feel free to use any pipeline you want.
+
+
+Start by navigating to the `examples/server` folder and installing all of the dependencies.
+
+```py
+pip install .
+pip install -f requirements.txt
+```
+
+Launch the server with the following command.
+
+```py
+python server.py
+```
+
+The server is accessed at http://localhost:8000. You can curl this model with the following command.
+```
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"model": "something", "prompt": "a kitten in front of a fireplace"}' http://localhost:8000/v1/images/generations
+```
+
+If you need to upgrade some dependencies, you can use either [pip-tools](https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools) or [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv). For example, upgrade the dependencies with `uv` using the following command.
+
+```
+uv pip compile requirements.in -o requirements.txt
+```
+
+
+The server is built with [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/). The endpoint for `v1/images/generations` is shown below.
+```py
+@app.post("/v1/images/generations")
+async def generate_image(image_input: TextToImageInput):
+    try:
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        scheduler = shared_pipeline.pipeline.scheduler.from_config(shared_pipeline.pipeline.scheduler.config)
+        pipeline = StableDiffusion3Pipeline.from_pipe(shared_pipeline.pipeline, scheduler=scheduler)
+        generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda")
+        generator.manual_seed(random.randint(0, 10000000))
+        output = await loop.run_in_executor(None, lambda: pipeline(image_input.prompt, generator = generator))
+        logger.info(f"output: {output}")
+        image_url = save_image(output.images[0])
+        return {"data": [{"url": image_url}]}
+    except Exception as e:
+        if isinstance(e, HTTPException):
+            raise e
+        elif hasattr(e, 'message'):
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=e.message + traceback.format_exc())
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e) + traceback.format_exc())
+```
+The `generate_image` function is defined as asynchronous with the [async](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/) keyword so that FastAPI knows that whatever is happening in this function won't necessarily return a result right away. Once it hits some point in the function that it needs to await some other [Task](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.Task), the main thread goes back to answering other HTTP requests. This is shown in the code below with the [await](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/#async-and-await) keyword.
+```py
+output = await loop.run_in_executor(None, lambda: pipeline(image_input.prompt, generator = generator))
+```
+At this point, the execution of the pipeline function is placed onto a [new thread](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.loop.run_in_executor), and the main thread performs other things until a result is returned from the `pipeline`.
+
+Another important aspect of this implementation is creating a `pipeline` from `shared_pipeline`. The goal behind this is to avoid loading the underlying model more than once onto the GPU while still allowing for each new request that is running on a separate thread to have its own generator and scheduler. The scheduler, in particular, is not thread-safe, and it will cause errors like: `IndexError: index 21 is out of bounds for dimension 0 with size 21` if you try to use the same scheduler across multiple threads.

examples/server/README.md

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+
+# Create a server
+
+Diffusers' pipelines can be used as an inference engine for a server. It supports concurrent and multithreaded requests to generate images that may be requested by multiple users at the same time.
+
+This guide will show you how to use the [`StableDiffusion3Pipeline`] in a server, but feel free to use any pipeline you want.
+
+
+Start by navigating to the `examples/server` folder and installing all of the dependencies.
+
+```py
+pip install .
+pip install -f requirements.txt
+```
+
+Launch the server with the following command.
+
+```py
+python server.py
+```
+
+The server is accessed at http://localhost:8000. You can curl this model with the following command.
+```
+curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"model": "something", "prompt": "a kitten in front of a fireplace"}' http://localhost:8000/v1/images/generations
+```
+
+If you need to upgrade some dependencies, you can use either [pip-tools](https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools) or [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv). For example, upgrade the dependencies with `uv` using the following command.
+
+```
+uv pip compile requirements.in -o requirements.txt
+```
+
+
+The server is built with [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/). The endpoint for `v1/images/generations` is shown below.
+```py
+@app.post("/v1/images/generations")
+async def generate_image(image_input: TextToImageInput):
+    try:
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        scheduler = shared_pipeline.pipeline.scheduler.from_config(shared_pipeline.pipeline.scheduler.config)
+        pipeline = StableDiffusion3Pipeline.from_pipe(shared_pipeline.pipeline, scheduler=scheduler)
+        generator = torch.Generator(device="cuda")
+        generator.manual_seed(random.randint(0, 10000000))
+        output = await loop.run_in_executor(None, lambda: pipeline(image_input.prompt, generator = generator))
+        logger.info(f"output: {output}")
+        image_url = save_image(output.images[0])
+        return {"data": [{"url": image_url}]}
+    except Exception as e:
+        if isinstance(e, HTTPException):
+            raise e
+        elif hasattr(e, 'message'):
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=e.message + traceback.format_exc())
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e) + traceback.format_exc())
+```
+The `generate_image` function is defined as asynchronous with the [async](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/) keyword so that FastAPI knows that whatever is happening in this function won't necessarily return a result right away. Once it hits some point in the function that it needs to await some other [Task](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.Task), the main thread goes back to answering other HTTP requests. This is shown in the code below with the [await](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/#async-and-await) keyword.
+```py
+output = await loop.run_in_executor(None, lambda: pipeline(image_input.prompt, generator = generator))
+```
+At this point, the execution of the pipeline function is placed onto a [new thread](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.loop.run_in_executor), and the main thread performs other things until a result is returned from the `pipeline`.
+
+Another important aspect of this implementation is creating a `pipeline` from `shared_pipeline`. The goal behind this is to avoid loading the underlying model more than once onto the GPU while still allowing for each new request that is running on a separate thread to have its own generator and scheduler. The scheduler, in particular, is not thread-safe, and it will cause errors like: `IndexError: index 21 is out of bounds for dimension 0 with size 21` if you try to use the same scheduler across multiple threads.

examples/server/requirements.in

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+torch~=2.4.0
+transformers==4.46.1
+sentencepiece
+aiohttp
+py-consul
+prometheus_client >= 0.18.0
+prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator >= 7.0.0
+fastapi
+uvicorn

examples/server/requirements.txt

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+# This file was autogenerated by uv via the following command:
+#    uv pip compile requirements.in -o requirements.txt
+aiohappyeyeballs==2.4.3
+    # via aiohttp
+aiohttp==3.10.10
+    # via -r requirements.in
+aiosignal==1.3.1
+    # via aiohttp
+annotated-types==0.7.0
+    # via pydantic
+anyio==4.6.2.post1
+    # via starlette
+attrs==24.2.0
+    # via aiohttp
+certifi==2024.8.30
+    # via requests
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
+    # via requests
+click==8.1.7
+    # via uvicorn
+fastapi==0.115.3
+    # via -r requirements.in
+filelock==3.16.1
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   torch
+    #   transformers
+frozenlist==1.5.0
+    # via
+    #   aiohttp
+    #   aiosignal
+fsspec==2024.10.0
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   torch
+h11==0.14.0
+    # via uvicorn
+huggingface-hub==0.26.1
+    # via
+    #   tokenizers
+    #   transformers
+idna==3.10
+    # via
+    #   anyio
+    #   requests
+    #   yarl
+jinja2==3.1.4
+    # via torch
+markupsafe==3.0.2
+    # via jinja2
+mpmath==1.3.0
+    # via sympy
+multidict==6.1.0
+    # via
+    #   aiohttp
+    #   yarl
+networkx==3.4.2
+    # via torch
+numpy==2.1.2
+    # via transformers
+packaging==24.1
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   transformers
+prometheus-client==0.21.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements.in
+    #   prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
+prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator==7.0.0
+    # via -r requirements.in
+propcache==0.2.0
+    # via yarl
+py-consul==1.5.3
+    # via -r requirements.in
+pydantic==2.9.2
+    # via fastapi
+pydantic-core==2.23.4
+    # via pydantic
+pyyaml==6.0.2
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   transformers
+regex==2024.9.11
+    # via transformers
+requests==2.32.3
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   py-consul
+    #   transformers
+safetensors==0.4.5
+    # via transformers
+sentencepiece==0.2.0
+    # via -r requirements.in
+sniffio==1.3.1
+    # via anyio
+starlette==0.41.0
+    # via
+    #   fastapi
+    #   prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
+sympy==1.13.3
+    # via torch
+tokenizers==0.20.1
+    # via transformers
+torch==2.4.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
+tqdm==4.66.5
+    # via
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   transformers
+transformers==4.46.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
+typing-extensions==4.12.2
+    # via
+    #   fastapi
+    #   huggingface-hub
+    #   pydantic
+    #   pydantic-core
+    #   torch
+urllib3==2.2.3
+    # via requests
+uvicorn==0.32.0
+    # via -r requirements.in
+yarl==1.16.0
+    # via aiohttp