[CI/Build] Replace vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server entrypoint with vllm serve command (#25967)

Signed-off-by: DarkLight1337 <tlleungac@connect.ust.hk>

docs/contributing/benchmarks.md

@@ -661,8 +661,7 @@ Benchmark the performance of multi-modal requests in vLLM.
 Start vLLM:
 
 ```bash
-python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-  --model Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct \
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct \
   --dtype bfloat16 \
   --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 1}' \
   --allowed-local-media-path /path/to/sharegpt4v/images
@@ -688,8 +687,7 @@ vllm bench serve \
 Start vLLM:
 
 ```bash
-python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-  --model Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct \
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct \
   --dtype bfloat16 \
   --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"video": 1}' \
   --allowed-local-media-path /path/to/sharegpt4video/videos

docs/contributing/profiling.md

@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ Refer to <gh-file:examples/offline_inference/simple_profiling.py> for an example
 
 ```bash
 VLLM_TORCH_PROFILER_DIR=./vllm_profile \
-    python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-    --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B
+    vllm serve meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B
 ```
 
 vllm bench command:

docs/deployment/frameworks/autogen.md

@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ pip install -U "autogen-agentchat" "autogen-ext[openai]"
 1. Start the vLLM server with the supported chat completion model, e.g.
 
     ```bash
-    python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-        --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
+    vllm serve mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
     ```
 
 1. Call it with AutoGen:

docs/deployment/frameworks/open-webui.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ To get started with Open WebUI using vLLM, follow these steps:
         For example:
 
         ```console
-        python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
+        vllm serve <model> --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
         ```
 
 3. Start the Open WebUI Docker container:

docs/deployment/frameworks/skypilot.md

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ See the vLLM SkyPilot YAML for serving, [serving.yaml](https://github.com/skypil
       ports: 8081  # Expose to internet traffic.
 
     envs:
+      PYTHONUNBUFFERED: 1
       MODEL_NAME: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
       HF_TOKEN: <your-huggingface-token>  # Change to your own huggingface token, or use --env to pass.
 
@@ -47,9 +48,8 @@ See the vLLM SkyPilot YAML for serving, [serving.yaml](https://github.com/skypil
     run: |
       conda activate vllm
       echo 'Starting vllm api server...'
-      python -u -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
+      vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
         --port 8081 \
-        --model $MODEL_NAME \
         --trust-remote-code \
         --tensor-parallel-size $SKYPILOT_NUM_GPUS_PER_NODE \
         2>&1 | tee api_server.log &
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ SkyPilot can scale up the service to multiple service replicas with built-in aut
       ports: 8081  # Expose to internet traffic.
 
     envs:
+      PYTHONUNBUFFERED: 1
       MODEL_NAME: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
       HF_TOKEN: <your-huggingface-token>  # Change to your own huggingface token, or use --env to pass.
 
@@ -146,9 +147,8 @@ SkyPilot can scale up the service to multiple service replicas with built-in aut
     run: |
       conda activate vllm
       echo 'Starting vllm api server...'
-      python -u -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
+      vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
         --port 8081 \
-        --model $MODEL_NAME \
         --trust-remote-code \
         --tensor-parallel-size $SKYPILOT_NUM_GPUS_PER_NODE \
         2>&1 | tee api_server.log
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ This will scale the service up to when the QPS exceeds 2 for each replica.
       ports: 8081  # Expose to internet traffic.
 
     envs:
+      PYTHONUNBUFFERED: 1
       MODEL_NAME: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
       HF_TOKEN: <your-huggingface-token>  # Change to your own huggingface token, or use --env to pass.
 
@@ -258,9 +259,8 @@ This will scale the service up to when the QPS exceeds 2 for each replica.
     run: |
       conda activate vllm
       echo 'Starting vllm api server...'
-      python -u -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
+      vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
         --port 8081 \
-        --model $MODEL_NAME \
         --trust-remote-code \
         --tensor-parallel-size $SKYPILOT_NUM_GPUS_PER_NODE \
         2>&1 | tee api_server.log

docs/design/arch_overview.md

@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ Sometimes you may see the API server entrypoint used directly instead of via the
 python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model <model>
 ```
 
+!!! warning
+
+    `python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server` is deprecated
+    and may become unsupported in a future release.
+
 That code can be found in <gh-file:vllm/entrypoints/openai/api_server.py>.
 
 More details on the API server can be found in the [OpenAI-Compatible Server](../serving/openai_compatible_server.md) document.

docs/features/sleep_mode.md

@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ To enable sleep mode in a vLLM server you need to initialize it with the flag `V
 When using the flag `VLLM_SERVER_DEV_MODE=1` you enable development endpoints, and these endpoints should not be exposed to users.
 
 ```bash
-VLLM_SERVER_DEV_MODE=1 python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-  --model Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
+VLLM_SERVER_DEV_MODE=1 vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
   --enable-sleep-mode \
   --port 8000
 ```

docs/features/spec_decode.md

@@ -48,10 +48,9 @@ The following code configures vLLM in an offline mode to use speculative decodin
 To perform the same with an online mode launch the server:
 
 ```bash
-python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
+vllm serve facebook/opt-6.7b \
     --host 0.0.0.0 \
     --port 8000 \
-    --model facebook/opt-6.7b \
     --seed 42 \
     -tp 1 \
     --gpu_memory_utilization 0.8 \

docs/getting_started/installation/gpu/xpu.inc.md

@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ docker run -it \
 XPU platform supports **tensor parallel** inference/serving and also supports **pipeline parallel** as a beta feature for online serving. For **pipeline parallel**, we support it on single node with mp as the backend. For example, a reference execution like following:
 
 ```bash
-python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
-     --model=facebook/opt-13b \
+vllm serve facebook/opt-13b \
      --dtype=bfloat16 \
      --max_model_len=1024 \
      --distributed-executor-backend=mp \