portainer_scripts/ai-templates/docs/AI_GAP_ANALYSIS.md

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