ai-rag

The ai-rag plugin provides Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities with LLMs. It facilitates the efficient retrieval of relevant documents or information from external data sources, which are used to enhance the LLM responses, thereby improving the accuracy and contextual relevance of the generated outputs.

The plugin supports using Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search services for generating embeddings and performing vector search.

Example

To follow along the example, create an Azure account and complete the following steps:

In Azure AI Foundry, deploy a generative chat model, such as gpt-4o, and an embedding model, such as text-embedding-3-large. Obtain the API key and model endpoints.
Follow Azure's example to prepare for a vector search in Azure AI Search using Python. The example will create a search index called vectest with the desired schema and upload the sample data which contains 108 descriptions of various Azure services, for embeddings titleVector and contentVector to be generated based on title and content. Complete all the setups before performing vector searches in Python.
In Azure AI Search, obtain the Azure vector search API key and the search service endpoint.

Save the API keys and endpoints to environment variables:

# replace with your values

AZ_OPENAI_DOMAIN=https://ai-plugin-developer.openai.azure.com
AZ_OPENAI_API_KEY=9m7VYroxITMDEqKKEnpOknn1rV7QNQT7DrIBApcwMLYJQQJ99ALACYeBjFXJ3w3AAABACOGXGcd
AZ_CHAT_ENDPOINT=${AZ_OPENAI_DOMAIN}/openai/deployments/gpt-4o/chat/completions?api-version=2024-02-15-preview
AZ_EMBEDDING_MODEL=text-embedding-3-large
AZ_EMBEDDINGS_ENDPOINT=${AZ_OPENAI_DOMAIN}/openai/deployments/${AZ_EMBEDDING_MODEL}/embeddings?api-version=2023-05-15

AZ_AI_SEARCH_SVC_DOMAIN=https://ai-plugin-developer.search.windows.net
AZ_AI_SEARCH_KEY=IFZBp3fKVdq7loEVe9LdwMvVdZrad9A4lPH90AzSeC06SlR
AZ_AI_SEARCH_INDEX=vectest
AZ_AI_SEARCH_ENDPOINT=${AZ_AI_SEARCH_SVC_DOMAIN}/indexes/${AZ_AI_SEARCH_INDEX}/docs/search?api-version=2024-07-01

Integrate with Azure for RAG-Enhaned Responses

The following example demonstrates how you can use the ai-proxy plugin to proxy requests to Azure OpenAI LLM and use the ai-rag plugin to generate embeddings and perform vector search to enhance LLM responses.

Create a route as such:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9180/apisix/admin/routes" -X PUT \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ${ADMIN_API_KEY}" \
  -d '{
  "id": "ai-rag-route",
  "uri": "/rag",
  "plugins": {
    "ai-rag": {
      "embeddings_provider": {
        "azure_openai": {
          "endpoint": "'"$AZ_EMBEDDINGS_ENDPOINT"'",
          "api_key": "'"$AZ_OPENAI_API_KEY"'"
        }
      },
      "vector_search_provider": {
        "azure_ai_search": {
          "endpoint": "'"$AZ_AI_SEARCH_ENDPOINT"'",
          "api_key": "'"$AZ_AI_SEARCH_KEY"'"
        }
      }
    },
    "ai-proxy": {
      "provider": "openai",
      "auth": {
        "header": {
          "api-key": "'"$AZ_OPENAI_API_KEY"'"
        }
      },
      "model": "gpt-4o",
      "override": {
        "endpoint": "'"$AZ_CHAT_ENDPOINT"'"
      }
    }
  }
}'

Send a POST request to the route with the vector fields name, embedding model dimensions, and an input prompt in the request body:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:9080/rag" -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "ai_rag":{
      "vector_search":{
        "fields":"contentVector"
      },
      "embeddings":{
        "input":"Which Azure services are good for DevOps?",
        "dimensions":1024
      }
    }
  }'

You should receive an HTTP/1.1 200 OK response similar to the following:

{
  "choices": [
    {
      "content_filter_results": {
        ...
      },
      "finish_reason": "length",
      "index": 0,
      "logprobs": null,
      "message": {
        "content": "Here is a list of Azure services categorized along with a brief description of each based on the provided JSON data:\n\n### Developer Tools\n- **Azure DevOps**: A suite of services that help you plan, build, and deploy applications, including Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts.\n- **Azure DevTest Labs**: A fully managed service to create, manage, and share development and test environments in Azure, supporting custom templates, cost management, and integration with Azure DevOps.\n\n### Containers\n- **Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)**: A managed container orchestration service based on Kubernetes, simplifying deployment and management of containerized applications with features like automatic upgrades and scaling.\n- **Azure Container Instances**: A serverless container runtime to run and scale containerized applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.\n- **Azure Container Registry**: A fully managed Docker registry service to store and manage container images and artifacts.\n\n### Web\n- **Azure App Service**: A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, mobile app backends, and RESTful APIs with support for multiple programming languages.\n- **Azure SignalR Service**: A fully managed real-time messaging service to build and scale real-time web applications.\n- **Azure Static Web Apps**: A serverless hosting service for modern web applications using static front-end technologies and serverless APIs.\n\n### Compute\n- **Azure Virtual Machines**: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering for deploying and managing virtual machines in the cloud.\n- **Azure Functions**: A serverless compute service to run event-driven code without managing infrastructure.\n- **Azure Batch**: A job scheduling service to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.\n- **Azure Service Fabric**: A platform to build, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and container-based applications.\n- **Azure Quantum**: A quantum computing service to build and run quantum applications.\n- **Azure Stack Edge**: A managed edge computing appliance to run Azure services and AI workloads on-premises or at the edge.\n\n### Security\n- **Azure Bastion**: A fully managed service providing secure and scalable remote access to virtual machines.\n- **Azure Security Center**: A unified security management service to protect workloads across Azure and on-premises infrastructure.\n- **Azure DDoS Protection**: A cloud-based service to protect applications and resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.\n\n### Databases\n",
        "role": "assistant"
      }
    }
  ],
  "created": 1740625850,
  "id": "chatcmpl-B54gQdumpfioMPIybFnirr6rq9ZZS",
  "model": "gpt-4o-2024-05-13",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "prompt_filter_results": [
    {
      "prompt_index": 0,
      "content_filter_results": {
        ...
      }
    }
  ],
  "system_fingerprint": "fp_65792305e4",
  "usage": {
    ...
  }
}

ai-rag

Example​

Integrate with Azure for RAG-Enhaned Responses​

Example

Integrate with Azure for RAG-Enhaned Responses