Implement on-prem RAG with Qdrant and Ollama for a self-hosted KB

Try It

This n8n template provides a self hosted RAG implementation.

How it works

• Provides one workflow to maintain the knowledge base and another one to query the knowledge base.
• Uploaded documents are saved into the Qdrant vector store.
• When a query is made, the most relevant documents are retrieved from the vector store and sent to the LLM as context for generating a response.

How to use

• Start the workflow by clicking Execute workflow
• Use the file upload form to upload a document into the knowledge base (Qdrant db).
• Click Open chat to start asking questions related to the uploaded documents.

Setup steps

Below steps show how to setup on Amazon Linux. Consult your OS for respective steps

• Install Ollama on prem

mkdir ollama
cd ollama
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama --version

• Install required models ( in Amazon Linux)

 ollama pull llama3:8b
 ollama pull mistral:7b
 ollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest

• Access ollama via http://localhost:11434
• Fire up Qdrant (e.g. via docker) docker run -p 6333:6333 qdrant/qdrant.
• Access Qdrant via http://localhost:6333/dashboard
• Create a Qdrant collection named knowledge-base configured with vector length of 768.
• NB: Do not forget a persistent docker volume for Qdrant if you want to keep the data when using docker.
• Point the nodes to the respective on premise Qdrant and Ollama runtimes.

Need Help?

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Happy RAGing!