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+# TrustGraph template generation
+
+There are two utilities here:
+
+- `generate`: Generates a single Docker Compose launch configuration
+  based on configuration you provide.
+- `generate-all`: Generates the release bundle for releases.  You won't
+  need to use this unless you are managing releases.
+  
+## `generate-all`
+
+Previously, this generates a full set of all vector DB / triple store / LLM
+combinations, and put them in a single ZIP file.  But this got out of
+hand, so at the time of writing, this generates a single configuraton
+using Qdrant vector DB, Ollama LLM support and Cassandra for a triple store.
+
+The combinations are contained withing the code, it takes two arguments:
+- output ZIP file (is over-written)
+- TrustGraph version number
+
+```
+templates/generate-all output.zip 0.18.11
+```
+
+## `generate`
+
+This utility takes a configuration file describing the components to bundle,
+and outputs a Docker Compose YAML file.
+
+### Input configuration
+
+The input configuration is a JSON file, an array of components to pull into
+the configuration.  For each component, there is a name and a (possibly empty)
+object describing addtional parameters for that component.
+
+Example:
+
+```
+[
+    {
+        "name": "cassandra",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "pulsar",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "qdrant",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "embeddings-hf",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "graph-rag",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "grafana",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "trustgraph",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "googleaistudio",
+        "parameters": {
+            "googleaistudio-temperature": 0.3,
+            "googleaistudio-max-output-tokens": 2048,
+            "googleaistudio-model": "gemini-1.5-pro-002"
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "prompt-template",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "override-recursive-chunker",
+        "parameters": {
+            "chunk-size": 1000,
+            "chunk-overlap": 50
+        }
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "workbench-ui",
+        "parameters": {}
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "agent-manager-react",
+        "parameters": {}
+    }
+]
+```
+
+If you want to make your own configuration you could try changing the
+configuration above:
+- Components which are essential: pulsar, trustgraph, graph-rag, grafana,
+  agent-manager-react
+- You need a triple store, one of: cassandra, memgraph, falkordb, neo4j
+- You need a vector store, one of: qdrant, pinecone
+- You need an LLM, one of: azure, azure-openai, bedrock, claude, cohere,
+  llamafile, ollama, openai, vertexai.
+- You need an embeddings implementation, one of: embeddings-hf,
+  embeddings-ollama
+- Optionally add the Workbench tool: workbench-ui
+
+Components have over-ridable parameters, look in the component definition
+in `templates/components/` to see what you can override.
+
+### Invocation
+
+Two parameters:
+- The output ZIP file
+- The version number
+
+The configuration file described above is provided on standard input
+
+```
+templates/generate out.zip 0.18.9 < config.json
+```
+