How to deploy Hymalaia on your local machine
The most common source of issues is under-resourcing. Before beginning, check the system requirements here.
This is just one way to run Hymalaia. Hymalaia can also be run on Kubernetes, there are provided Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts in the deployment directory.
Clone the Hymalaia repo:
(Optional) configure Hymalaia
Bring up your docker engine and run:
To pull images from DockerHub and run Hymalaia:
Alternatively, to build the containers from source and start Hymalaia, run:
api_server
may take some time. If you see “This site can’t be reached” in your browser despite all containers being up and running, check the api_server
logs and make sure you see “Application startup complete”.Once completed, Hymalaia will be running on http://localhost:3000.
On the initial visit, Hymalaia will prompt for a GenAI API key.
For example, you can get an OpenAI API key at: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
Hymalaia relies on Generate AI models to provide parts of its functionality. You can choose any LLM provider from the admin panel or even self-host a local LLM for a truely airgapped deployment.
To stop Hymalaia, run:
Add -v
at the end to additionally delete the volumes (containing users, indexed documents, etc.)
How to deploy Hymalaia on your local machine
The most common source of issues is under-resourcing. Before beginning, check the system requirements here.
This is just one way to run Hymalaia. Hymalaia can also be run on Kubernetes, there are provided Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts in the deployment directory.
Clone the Hymalaia repo:
(Optional) configure Hymalaia
Bring up your docker engine and run:
To pull images from DockerHub and run Hymalaia:
Alternatively, to build the containers from source and start Hymalaia, run:
api_server
may take some time. If you see “This site can’t be reached” in your browser despite all containers being up and running, check the api_server
logs and make sure you see “Application startup complete”.Once completed, Hymalaia will be running on http://localhost:3000.
On the initial visit, Hymalaia will prompt for a GenAI API key.
For example, you can get an OpenAI API key at: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
Hymalaia relies on Generate AI models to provide parts of its functionality. You can choose any LLM provider from the admin panel or even self-host a local LLM for a truely airgapped deployment.
To stop Hymalaia, run:
Add -v
at the end to additionally delete the volumes (containing users, indexed documents, etc.)