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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.
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
- Ollama — Local LLM inference engine (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, etc.)
- Open WebUI — ChatGPT-like web interface for Ollama/OpenAI-compatible backends
- LocalAI — Drop-in OpenAI API replacement, runs models locally
- vLLM — High-throughput LLM serving with PagedAttention
- Text Generation WebUI — Comprehensive LLM interface (oobabooga)
- LiteLLM — Unified LLM API gateway / proxy
Image & Video Generation
- ComfyUI — Node-based Stable Diffusion workflow engine
- Stable Diffusion WebUI — AUTOMATIC1111 web interface for image generation
AI Agents & Workflows
- Langflow — Visual framework for building LLM-powered agents
- Flowise — Drag-and-drop LLM orchestration / chatflow builder
- n8n AI — Workflow automation with AI agent nodes
Vector Databases
- Qdrant — High-performance vector similarity search engine
- ChromaDB — AI-native open-source embedding database
- Weaviate — Vector database with built-in vectorization modules
ML Operations
- MLflow — ML experiment tracking, model registry, and serving
- Label Studio — Multi-type data labeling and annotation platform
- Jupyter GPU — GPU-accelerated Jupyter notebooks for ML development
Speech & Audio
- Whisper — OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text API server
Generated: March 2026 — For use with Portainer Business Edition and Community Edition