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Build RAG API Service

Build a complete RAG API service with retrieval pipeline, context assembly, LLM integration, and streaming responses.

75 minutes
ai-infrastructure/rag
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 3. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/ai-platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 3: RAG Architectures and Vector Databases (slug: rag-architectures-103)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running Platform Assistant capstone arc that grows across all 8 weeks of the bootcamp.

This hands-on lab teaches you to build a production-ready RAG API service.

You'll learn to:

  • Build a retrieval pipeline that finds relevant documents
  • Assemble context with source attribution
  • Integrate LLM for answer generation
  • Implement streaming responses for better UX
  • Deploy the service on Kubernetes

This lab creates the core RAG service for your Platform Assistant.

What You'll Learn

Build a retrieval pipeline using ChromaDB vector database

Assemble context from retrieved documents with source attribution

Integrate Ollama LLM for answer generation with streaming

Create a FastAPI application with RAG endpoints

Prerequisites

document-ingestion-pipeline

llm-api-integration

Technologies Covered

ragfastapillmollamakubernetesstreamingchroma

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the RAG Architectures and Vector Databases course

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