Weaviate Workshop

What you need for the workshop

• API Keys for embedding models, like:
  • OpenAI - API keys
  • etc,

Create a Weaviate Cloud instance

• Head to Weaviate Cloud console and log in, or create a new account.
• Create a free Sandbox cluster. Give it a name, select the cloud region and press "Create".

Running the workshop

Option 1 - Run locally

Virtual environment – do this only once

First create a new venv configuration.

python3 -m venv .venv

Then switch to the new configuration:

source .venv/bin/activate

And install the required packages.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Option 2 - GitHub CodeSpaces instructions

1. Go to the project https://github.com/weaviate-tutorials/weaviate-workshop

Make sure you are logged in with GitHub.

2. Create a Codespace project

• Press the green <> Code button, then switch to Codespaces tab.
• Press the Create codespace on main button.
• Your codespace project will install all the necessary components, it will take a few minutes.

Env vars

Update env vars in .env.

Hint. you can find your Weaviate Cluster URL and API keys in the WCD console.

• WEAVIATE_URL - is the REST Endpoint
• WEAVIATE_KEY - is the Admin key in API Keys

Test your setup

Head to 1-intro/0-prep-run.ipynb, and run through all steps.

Download the prevectorized data

Head to prep-data.ipynb and run all the cells. This should download the data we will use in the second lesson.

Enable asynch indexing in the Cloud Console or in Docker

In the Cloud Console