Introducing Obot: An Open-Source AI Agent Platform (Part 1)

Recently I had the opportunity to explore Obot, an open-source AI agent platform that’s changing the game for building AI-powered workflows. The team behind Obot includes the founders of Rancher Labs, a company that pioneered containerization and cloud computing, and was later acquired by SUSE in 2020.

What is Obot?

Obot is a software platform that provides turnkey solutions for building AI copilots and sharing them with your organization. Completely open-source, Obot delivers a multi-tenant agent platform that ships with everything you need to build and run LLM-powered agents.

Setting Up Obot Server

To get started with Obot, you can use Docker or Docker Compose to deploy the server. Here are the instructions:

Using Docker

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/obot-platform/obot:latest        

Using Docker Compose

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following configuration:

version: '3'
services:
  obot:
    image: ghcr.io/obot-platform/obot:latest
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - OBOT_SERVER_ENABLE_AUTHENTICATION=true
      - OBOT_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN=6e535d1c4cf3ca015cc125e1d5b74539994a75fedcd9c4b18924ac2240646790
      - OBOT_WORKSPACE_PROVIDER_TYPE=directory
      - OPENAI_API_KEY=<Open AI KEY>
  mariadb:
    image: mariadb:latest
    container_name: mariadb-compose
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=mydatabase
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
  mssql:
    image: rapidfort/microsoft-sql-server-2019-ib:latest
    container_name: mssql-compose
    user: root
    ports:
      - "1433:1433"
    environment:
      - ACCEPT_EULA=Y
      - MSSQL_AGENT_ENABLED=True
      - SA_PASSWORD=mssql1Ipw
  oracle-db:
    image: gvenzl/oracle-free
    container_name: oracle-demo
    ports:
      - "1521:1521"
    environment:
      - ORACLE_PASSWORD=YourPassword123
      - ORACLE_DATABASE=PDB1
    volumes:
      - oracle-data:/opt/oracle/oradata
volumes:
  oracle-data:        

Run docker-compose up to start the containers.

Walkthrough of Obot UI

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