# Portainer v3 Templates — AI Gap Analysis

## Overview

The official Portainer v3 templates (`templates.json`) contain **71 templates** across the following categories:

| Category | Count | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Database | 10 | MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Redis, CrateDB, Elasticsearch, CockroachDB, TimescaleDB |
| Edge/IIoT | 14 | Softing EdgeConnectors, OPC Router, TOSIBOX, EMQX MQTT, Mosquitto, Node-RED, Litmus Edge |
| Web/CMS | 8 | Nginx, Caddy, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ghost, Plone |
| DevOps/CI | 5 | Jenkins, GitLab CE, Dokku, Registry |
| Monitoring | 4 | Grafana, Datadog, Sematext, Swarm Monitoring |
| Messaging | 1 | RabbitMQ |
| Storage | 3 | Minio, Scality S3, File Browser |
| Serverless | 2 | OpenFaaS, IronFunctions |
| Other | 6 | Ubuntu, NodeJS, Portainer Agent, OpenAMT, FDO, LiveSwitch |

## AI Template Count: **0**

There are **zero purely AI/ML-focused templates** in the current v3 template list.

### Closest to AI

- **Litmus Edge** (#70, #71) — Described as "enables industrial AI at scale" but is fundamentally an OT data platform / edge data collector, not an AI deployment.
- **Elasticsearch** (#13) — Used in vector search / RAG pipelines but is a general-purpose search engine.

### Gap

The templates completely miss the fastest-growing Docker deployment category: AI inference, model serving, LLM tooling, vector databases, ML pipelines, AI-powered agents, and GPU-accelerated workloads.

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## Recommended AI Template Additions

This repository provides **18 production-ready AI Docker Compose stacks** for Portainer, organized into the following sub-categories:

### LLM Inference & Model Serving
1. **Ollama** — Local LLM inference engine (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, etc.)
2. **Open WebUI** — ChatGPT-like web interface for Ollama/OpenAI-compatible backends
3. **LocalAI** — Drop-in OpenAI API replacement, runs models locally
4. **vLLM** — High-throughput LLM serving with PagedAttention
5. **Text Generation WebUI** — Comprehensive LLM interface (oobabooga)
6. **LiteLLM** — Unified LLM API gateway / proxy

### Image & Video Generation
7. **ComfyUI** — Node-based Stable Diffusion workflow engine
8. **Stable Diffusion WebUI** — AUTOMATIC1111 web interface for image generation

### AI Agents & Workflows
9. **Langflow** — Visual framework for building LLM-powered agents
10. **Flowise** — Drag-and-drop LLM orchestration / chatflow builder
11. **n8n AI** — Workflow automation with AI agent nodes

### Vector Databases
12. **Qdrant** — High-performance vector similarity search engine
13. **ChromaDB** — AI-native open-source embedding database
14. **Weaviate** — Vector database with built-in vectorization modules

### ML Operations
15. **MLflow** — ML experiment tracking, model registry, and serving
16. **Label Studio** — Multi-type data labeling and annotation platform
17. **Jupyter GPU** — GPU-accelerated Jupyter notebooks for ML development

### Speech & Audio
18. **Whisper** — OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text API server

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*Generated: March 2026 — For use with Portainer Business Edition and Community Edition*