Installing Weaviate on NetBSD

Weaviate is an open-source, cloud-native, vector search engine built using Go and GraphQL. In this tutorial, we will install Weaviate on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before installing Weaviate on NetBSD, you need to:

• Have a NetBSD machine with root privileges
• Install Docker and Docker Compose on your system

Step 1: Clone the Weaviate repository

Open the terminal and clone the Weaviate repository using the git command.

git clone https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate/

Step 2: Make changes to the docker-compose.yml file

Inside the weaviate/docker directory, open the docker-compose.yml file and make the following changes:

• Comment out the volumes section for the database and uncomment the command line.
• Uncomment the ports section for the Weaviate service.

db:
  image: postgres:11.5-alpine
  environment:
    POSTGRES_USER: weaviate
    POSTGRES_PASSWORD: changeme123
    POSTGRES_DB: weaviate
  # volumes: 
  #   - weaviate-db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
  restart: always
  networks:
    - weaviate

weaviate:
  build:
    context: ..
    dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile
  command: ["./tools/wait-for.sh", "db:5432", "-t", "1", "--", "./bin/weaviate --host 0.0.0.0 --scheme http --enable-contextionary --no-config-file"]
  ports:
    - "8080:8080"
  restart: always
  depends_on:
    - db
  networks:
    - weaviate

# volumes:
#   weaviate-db:
networks:
  weaviate:

Step 3: Build and run Weaviate

Build the Weaviate Docker image by running the following command:

docker-compose build

Then, start the Weaviate container by running the following command:

docker-compose up -d

Step 4: Verify Weaviate installation

Check if Weaviate is running by visiting http://localhost:8080/v1/meta in your browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Weaviate on NetBSD using Docker.

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