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Services Overview

Complete list of services available in UIS compared to their cloud equivalents.

Cloud Services Comparison​

FunctionalityAzure / AWSUIS ServiceDeploy command
Container OrchestrationAzure AKS, EKSRancher DesktopPlatform prerequisite
Reverse Proxy & IngressAzure Application GatewayTraefikPlatform built-in
Web ServerAzure Static Web AppsNGINX./uis deploy nginx
Primary DatabaseAzure Database for PostgreSQLPostgreSQL./uis deploy postgresql
Alternative SQLAzure Database for MySQLMySQL./uis deploy mysql
NoSQL DatabaseAzure Cosmos DBMongoDB./uis deploy mongodb
Cache & Session StoreAzure Cache for RedisRedis./uis deploy redis
Search EngineAzure AI SearchElasticsearch./uis deploy elasticsearch
Vector DatabaseAzure AI SearchQdrant./uis deploy qdrant
Authentication & SSOAzure AD, AWS IAMAuthentik./uis deploy authentik
AI Chat InterfaceAzure OpenAI ServiceOpenWebUI./uis deploy openwebui
LLM Proxy & RouterAzure OpenAI, AWS BedrockLiteLLM./uis deploy litellm
Document ProcessingAzure AI Document IntelligenceApache Tika./uis deploy tika
Monitoring & DashboardsAzure Monitor, CloudWatchGrafana./uis deploy grafana
Metrics CollectionAzure MonitorPrometheus./uis deploy prometheus
Log AggregationAzure Log AnalyticsLoki./uis deploy loki
Distributed TracingAzure Application InsightsTempo./uis deploy tempo
Telemetry PipelineAzure Application InsightsOpenTelemetry Collector./uis deploy otel-collector
Data ProcessingAzure DatabricksApache Spark./uis deploy spark
Notebook EnvironmentAzure Machine LearningJupyterHub./uis deploy jupyterhub
Data CatalogMicrosoft PurviewUnity Catalog./uis deploy unity-catalog
Message BrokerAzure Service Bus, SQSRabbitMQ./uis deploy rabbitmq
API GatewayAzure API ManagementGravitee./uis deploy gravitee
GitOps & CDAzure DevOps, GitHub ActionsArgoCD./uis deploy argocd
Database AdminAzure PortalpgAdmin./uis deploy pgadmin
Redis AdminAzure PortalRedisInsight./uis deploy redisinsight
VPN ConnectivityAzure VPN GatewayTailscale./uis deploy tailscale-tunnel
Public TunnelsAzure Front DoorCloudflare Tunnels./uis deploy cloudflare-tunnel
Test Service—Whoami./uis deploy whoami

Service Categories​

Observability​

  • Prometheus — Metrics collection and alerting
  • Grafana — Monitoring dashboards and visualization
  • Loki — Log aggregation and analysis
  • Tempo — Distributed tracing
  • OpenTelemetry Collector — Telemetry pipeline

Deploy as a package: ./uis stack install observability

AI​

  • OpenWebUI — Chat interface for LLMs
  • LiteLLM — Universal LLM proxy and router
  • Ollama — Local LLM runtime
  • Tika — Document processing and extraction
  • Qdrant — Vector database for embeddings

Analytics​

  • Apache Spark — Distributed data processing
  • JupyterHub — Multi-user notebook environment
  • Unity Catalog — Data governance and cataloging

Identity​

  • Authentik — Authentication, SSO, and identity provider

Databases​

  • PostgreSQL — Primary relational database
  • MySQL — Alternative SQL database
  • MongoDB — Document database
  • Redis — Cache and session store
  • Elasticsearch — Full-text search engine

Management​

  • ArgoCD — GitOps continuous delivery
  • pgAdmin — PostgreSQL administration
  • RedisInsight — Redis administration
  • Gravitee — API lifecycle management

Networking​

  • Tailscale — Secure mesh VPN
  • Cloudflare Tunnels — Public access without port forwarding

Integration​

  • RabbitMQ — Message queuing

Service Dependencies​

Some services require others to be running first:

ServiceRequires
AuthentikPostgreSQL, Redis
OpenWebUIPostgreSQL
LiteLLMPostgreSQL
Unity CatalogPostgreSQL
pgAdminPostgreSQL
RedisInsightRedis
GrafanaPrometheus, Loki, Tempo (for full functionality)
OTel CollectorPrometheus, Loki, Tempo (as backends)

UIS checks dependencies automatically and warns if a required service is not deployed.

Service Access​

All services are accessible through *.localhost URLs:

ServiceURL
Grafanahttp://grafana.localhost
Prometheushttp://prometheus.localhost
Authentikhttp://authentik.localhost
OpenWebUIhttp://openwebui.localhost
pgAdminhttp://pgadmin.localhost
ArgoCDhttp://argocd.localhost