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DigitalOcean Now Integrates with LlamaIndex

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By Narasimha Badrinath

  • Updated: November 13, 2026
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We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean now integrates natively with LlamaIndex - one of the most popular frameworks for building RAG applications.

This means you can now connect your Knowledge Base and LLMs directly to LlamaIndex workflows, using the abstractions you already know. No additional infrastructure. No complex setup. Just install two packages and start building.

Why This Matters

If you’ve built RAG applications before, you know the drill: provision a vector database, set up an embedding pipeline, manage credentials across services, and stitch everything together. It’s a lot of overhead before you write a single line of application logic.

With these new integrations, we’ve done the heavy lifting. Your Knowledge Base handles document ingestion, chunking, and embeddings. The LlamaIndex retriever connects directly to it. Add our LLM integration, and you have a complete RAG pipeline running on managed DigitalOcean infrastructure.

What’s New

Two packages are now available on PyPI:

llama-index-retrievers-digitalocean Connect to your Knowledge Base as a LlamaIndex retriever. Supports hybrid search (keyword + semantic), metadata filtering, and async operations.

llama-index-llms-digitalocean Use Gradient AI Platform-hosted LLMs in your LlamaIndex workflows. Supports streaming responses and async for high-throughput applications.

Both packages work with LlamaIndex query engines, chat engines, callbacks, and the broader ecosystem.

Get Started in Minutes

Install the packages:

pip install llama-index-retrievers-digitalocean-gradientai llama-index-llms-digitalocean-gradientai

From there, configure your credentials and drop the retriever and LLM into your existing LlamaIndex code. Check out our documentation for a complete walkthrough and code examples.

What You Can Build

These integrations open up a range of possibilities:

  • Support assistants grounded in your product documentation
  • Internal tools that query company wikis and runbooks
  • Code assistants with context from private repositories
  • Research tools for document-based Q&A

If you’re already using LlamaIndex, you can integrate DigitalOcan into your existing application. If you’re starting fresh, you now have a fully managed path from Knowledge Base to production RAG app.

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