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🔮 Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model and pipeline orchestration, designed to streamline every aspect of building versatile AI-first applications

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🔮 Instill Core

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✨ Make your unstructured data AI-ready FAST & build unique versatile AI-first applications EASILY. ✨

Quick start

There are a few ways to start exploring:

  1. Instill Cloud: Explore our public cloud powered by Instill Core with ready-to-use APIs, automations, AI Assistants and more. See the quickstart on how to get started.
  2. Self-hosting Instill Core: Follow the installation steps below or documentation for more details to build versatile AI applications locally.

What is Instill Core?

Instill Core is your end-to-end AI platform for data, pipeline and model orchestration.

🔮 Instill Core - The full-stack AI infrastructure tool

Instill Core simplifies infrastructure hassle and encompasses these core features:

  • DATA - Instill Artifact: Transforms unstructured data (documents, images, audio, video) into AI-ready formats.
  • PIPELINE - Instill VDP: Quickly build any versatile AI-first APIs or automated workflows.
  • MODEL - Instill Model: MLOps/LLMOps platform for model serving and monitoring.

What can you build?

  • 📖 Parsing PDF Files to Markdown: Cookbook
  • 🧱 Generating Structured Outputs from LLMs: Cookbook & Tutorial
  • 🕸️ Web scraping & Google Search with Structured Insights: Tutorial & YouTube
  • 🌱 Instance segmentation on microscopic plant stomata images: Cookbook

See Examples for more!

Installation

Prerequisites

Operating System Requirements and Instructions
macOS or Linux Instill Core works natively
Windows • Use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)
• Install latest yq from GitHub Repository
• Install latest Docker Desktop and enable WSL2 integration (tutorial)
• (Optional) Install cuda-toolkit on WSL2 (NVIDIA tutorial)
All Systems • Docker Engine v25 or later
• Docker Compose v2 or later
• Install latest stable Docker and Docker Compose

Steps

Use stable release version

Execute the following commands to pull pre-built images with all the dependencies to launch:

$ git clone -b v0.47.0-beta https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core.git && cd instill-core

# Launch all services
$ make all

Note

We have restructured our project repositories. If you need to access 🔮 Instill Core projects up to version v0.13.0-beta, please refer to the instill-ai/deprecated-core repository.

Use the latest version for local development

Execute the following commands to build images with all the dependencies to launch:

$ git clone https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core.git && cd instill-core

# Launch all services
$ make latest PROFILE=all

Important

Code in the main branch tracks under-development progress towards the next release and may not work as expected. If you are looking for a stable alpha version, please use latest release.

🚀 That's it! Once all the services are up with health status, the UI is ready to go at http://localhost:3000. Please find the default login credentials in the documentation.

To shut down all running services:

$ make down

Explore the documentation to discover all available deployment options.

Deployment

You can either self-host 🔮 Instill Core or choose our fully managed ☁️ Instill Cloud to get access to all the latest features. Visit the Deployment Overview for more details.

🔮 Instill Core - Deployment

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Documentation

Please visit our official documentation for more.

Additional resources:

Contributing

We welcome contributions from our community! Checkout the methods below:

  1. Cookbooks: Help us create helpful pipelines and guides for the community. Visit our Cookbook repository to get started.

  2. Issues: Contribute to improvements by raising tickets using templates here or discuss in existing ones you think you can help with.

Community Standards

We are committed to maintaining a respectful and welcoming atmosphere for all contributors. Before contributing, please read:

Support

Get help by joining our Discord community where you can post any questions on our #ask-for-help channel.

Contributors ✨

Thank you to all these wonderful people (emoji key):


Vibhor Bhatt

Miguel Ortiz

Sajda Kabir

Henry Chen

Hari Bhandari

Shiva Gaire

Zubeen

ShihChun-H

Ikko Eltociear Ashimine

Farookh Zaheer Siddiqui

Brian Gallagher

hairyputtar

David Marx

Deniz Parlak

Po-Yu Chen

Po Chun Chiu

Sarthak

HR Wu

phelan

Chang, Hui-Tang

Xiaofei Du

Ping-Lin Chang

Tony Wang

Pratik date

Juan Vallés

Naman Anand

totuslink

Praharsh Jain

Utsav Paul

CaCaBlocker

Rafael Melo

Jeremy Shih

Romit Mohane

ChunHao

Amelia C

楊竣凱

andre.liang

Zoodane

George Strong

Anni

Mubeen Kodvavi

RCKT

Wojciech Bandzerewicz

Gary

Leo

felixcorleone

Zoe

Daniel

Manul Thanura

Akash Jana

Anish0203

Prathamesh Tugaonkar

Shubham

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

See the LICENSE file for licensing information.