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.