Spin Up Weaviate is an intermediate, hands-on course for developers and ML engineers who need to get a modern vector database running fast. If you're ready to move from theory to practice, this course provides a direct, step-by-step path to deploying, configuring, populating, and querying Weaviate, one of the most popular open-source vector databases available today. Forget high-level concepts; this course is about execution.
Spin Up Weaviate
Spin Up Weaviate
This course is part of Chroma, Weaviate & Production RAG Deployment Specialization
Instructor: LearningMate
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2 hours to complete
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Deploy a Weaviate vector database with Docker Compose, configure a schema, ingest data objects, and run vector search queries using its native API.
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March 2026
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This course is part of the Chroma, Weaviate & Production RAG Deployment Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course
This module focuses on the essential first step: setting up and running your database environment. You will learn how to use Docker Compose to launch a Weaviate instance locally, understand its configuration, and define a data schema that tells the database how to structure incoming information.
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1 video1 reading2 assignments
Your database is running; now it's time to use it. This module focuses on the data lifecycle. You will learn how to use Weaviate's REST APIs to ingest data and the GraphQL API to verify retrieval using vector search queries.
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2 videos1 reading2 assignments
With data in your database, this final module teaches you how to get it out intelligently. You will master how to construct and refine vector search queries using GraphQL, understand how query choices affect relevance, and apply these skills to retrieve meaningful results from larger datasets.
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