Set Environment Variables

Before we run the docker compose, we have set the necessary environment variables to run Vectorflow and addtional services such as our embedding database, rabbitmq, and postgres.

First create a folder in the root for all the environment variables:

mkdir env_scripts
cd env_scripts
touch env_vars.env

This creates a file called env_vars.env in the env_scripts folder to add all the environment variables mentioned below.

INTERNAL_API_KEY=your-choice
POSTGRES_USERNAME=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your-choice
POSTGRES_DB=vectorflow
POSTGRES_HOST=postgres
RABBITMQ_USERNAME=guest
RABBITMQ_PASSWORD=guest
RABBITMQ_HOST=rabbitmq
EMBEDDING_QUEUE=embeddings
VDB_UPLOAD_QUEUE=vdb-upload
LOCAL_VECTOR_DB=qdrant | milvus | weaviate

You can choose a variable for INTERNAL_API_KEY, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, and POSTGRES_DB, but they must be set.