Dataprep Microservice with Pinecone
July 25, 2025 · View on GitHub
Table of contents
🚀Start Microservice with Docker
Start Pinecone Server
- Create Pinecone account from the below link
More details from Pinecone quick start guide https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/get-started/quickstart
- Get API key
API Key is needed to make the API calls. API key can get it from the Project -> Manage -> API keys
- Create the index in https://app.pinecone.io/
Following details are to be provided
- Index name
- Based on the embedding model selected, following has to be provided
a. Dimensions
b. Metric
Setup Environment Variables
export http_proxy=${your_http_proxy}
export https_proxy=${your_http_proxy}
export PINECONE_API_KEY=${PINECONE_API_KEY}
export PINECONE_INDEX_NAME=${PINECONE_INDEX_NAME}
Build Docker Image
cd ../../../../
docker build -t opea/dataprep:latest --build-arg https_proxy=$https_proxy --build-arg http_proxy=$http_proxy -f comps/dataprep/src/Dockerfile .
Run Docker with CLI
docker run -d --name="dataprep-pinecone-server" -p 6007:6007 --ipc=host -e http_proxy=$http_proxy -e https_proxy=$https_proxy -e DATAPREP_COMPONENT_NAME="OPEA_DATAPREP_PINECONE" opea/dataprep:latest
Run Docker with Docker Compose
cd comps/dataprep/deployment/docker_compose
docker compose -f compose_pipecone.yaml up -d
Invoke Microservice
Once document preparation microservice for Pinecone is started, user can use below command to invoke the microservice to convert the document to embedding and save to the database.
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"path":"/path/to/document"}' http://localhost:6007/v1/dataprep/ingest