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Installation

Medcat Service can be run using helm or docker compose

The recommended approach is using helm

Helm installation

Bring up medcat service with one line using helm

helm install medcat-service-helm oci://registry-1.docker.io/cogstacksystems/medcat-service-helm

See medcat-service-helm for the full documentation of how to use this chart.

Docker compose

You also can bring up medcat service using docker compose with an example like this:

name: cogstack-medcat-service
services:
  medcat-service:
    image: cogstacksystems/medcat-service:${IMAGE_TAG-latest}
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # Uses a preloaded model pack example inside the image
      - APP_MEDCAT_MODEL_PACK=/cat/models/examples/example-medcat-v2-model-pack.zip
      - APP_ENABLE_METRICS=True
      - APP_ENABLE_DEMO_UI=True
    ports:
      - "5555:5000"

You can now access medcat service on localhost:5555

See the other examples and scenarios for running medcat service on cogstack-nlp github